Meet Kate Harding: feminist, liberal, scholar of rape culture — and supporter of confessed sexual harasser Al Franken. From her Washington Post op-ed today:
But I don’t believe resigning from his position is the only possible consequence, or the one that’s best for American women.Cynics on both the right and left will presume I am passing by this particular steam tray on 2017’s smorgasbord of feminist outrage because Franken is a Democrat, and so am I. (I was even his proud constituent for two years.) In the most superficial sense, this is true. But it’s meaningless to say it’s because I am a Democrat without asking why I am a Democrat. If you understand what it means to be a Democrat today — that is, why it makes sense to vote blue over red in this highly polarized political environment — you can understand why it might not make the most sense to demand Franken’s resignation, effective immediately.
Ah. Harding tells us that she doesn’t want Franken to resign, because that would be good for Republicans:
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