A year ago, mere days into the #MeToo era, I wrote about my fears that it would likely only ever be a movement of tragic confessionals and not one of revolution or lasting change.

Flash forward nearly a year to the day, and Christine Blasey Ford would tell her story of sexual assault to the Senate Judicial Committee. Ford shared her pain and we watched on and wondered whether it would be harrowing enough to thwart the heir getting his crown. It wasn’t and it was never going to be.