From the moment it begins, a sexual assault condemns a victim to a lifetime of grim calculations.Jennifer Racicot’s allegation that Maine’s former Democratic US Senate nominee raped her in 2021 is a seismic political story. Democrats of all stripes are rightly searching their souls right now, analyzing this debacle for lessons they desperately need to learn.But being lost in all the politics is a human story, and an achingly familiar one for survivors. It is the story of how victims of sexual assault must choose between two unimaginably awful options: staying silent or standing up. Racicot chose to stand up...