A Reckoning for MeToo

Using sexual allegations as a political tool has killed the movement’s credibility and rendered truth irrelevant.

Is Elon Musk a sexual predator? Did he, as allegations unveiled by Business Insider suggest, flash his erect penis at a SpaceX flight attendant, asking her for sexual favors in exchange for buying her a horse? Insider’s source, a friend of the accuser, claims that he did. But Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, has forcefully denied all allegations, dismissing them as a political attack intended to foil his acquisition of Twitter.

Certainly, Musk has his enemies. Not everyone was...