The New York Times has a profile piece on Stormy Daniels:
...By now, the public knows both too much about Ms. Clifford, who goes by Stormy Daniels, and almost nothing at all.
She is the actress in pornographic films who is suing a sitting president, with whom she said she had a consensual affair, in order to be released from a nondisclosure agreement she reached with his lawyer just before the 2016 election. Over the past two months, she has guided the story of her alleged relationship with President Trump — and the $130,000 she was paid to keep silent — into a full-fledged scandal. If Ms. Clifford’s court case proceeds, Mr. Trump may have to testify in depositions, and her suit could provide evidence of campaign spending violations. She is scheduled to appear on “60 Minutes” on Sunday.
And if her name has seemed ubiquitous — repeated on cable television and in the White House briefing room, and plastered on signs outside nightclubs, where her appearance fees have multiplied — there is this to consider: Unlike most perceived presidential adversaries, about whom Mr. Trump is rarely shy, Ms. Clifford has not been the subject of a single tweet.
Odds are the upcoming 60 Minutes interview will be problematic. Mainstream media are still trying to tiptoe around a president who is a self-confessed sexual predator and serial adulterer. (And a Republican; when it comes to Democrats, sex scandals are a stock narrative.)
Daniels and Trump have some obvious similarities. Both are celebrities, both are good at self-promotion. The differences, however, are stark.
Trump is the beneficiary of inherited wealth. His business dealings have been marked by repeated failures. He is a pathological liar and con man. He is famously ignorant and openly racist.
Daniels has achieved her current success on her own merits and determination. She works in a business that markets fantasies, yet is grounded in the reality of what she does and operates on her own terms. Daniels has something that upsets some people and is a direct challenge to the patriarchal authoritarian world view that Donald Trump represents. She has agency.
In social science, agency is the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. By contrast, structure is those factors of influence (such as social class, religion, gender, ethnicity, ability, customs, etc.) that determine or limit an agent and his or her decisions.[1] The relative difference in influences from structure and agency is debated—it is unclear to what extent a person's actions are constrained by social systems.
One's agency is one's independent capability or ability to act on one's will. This ability is affected by the cognitive belief structure which one has formed through one's experiences, and the perceptions held by the society and the individual, of the structures and circumstances of the environment one is in and the position they are born into. Disagreement on the extent of one's agency often causes conflict between parties, e.g. parents and children.
If she can bring down a man who is totally corrupt and totally delusional, more power to her.