The Case of Al Franken by Jane Mayer

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150. Ironically, she could have gained even more popularity if she had called for the Ethics investigatio

instead of Franken's resignation. Seriously, what would a Senator Gillibrand look like today if she had publicly supported Franken's call for an investigation, had publicly insisted that Franken not be rail-loaded, had she publicly declared that the process must be fair and open?

I think she'd look pretty good, actually. She would not have been seen as betraying the #metoo movement but, actually, supporting it.

But politicians like her have no genuine principles, nothing they hold to the last. She chose to destroy a man before he could receive his day in court. And those who jumped on her bandwagon showed themselves to be weak and, frankly, not worthy of our trust. Schumer I wouldn't trust in any case, but Warren and Harris . . . I felt like the little boy of legend and myth who confronted his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson after the Black Sox scandal was exposed: "Say it ain't so, Joe," he is reported to have said. My disappointment is the same as the kid's.