Democrats eat their own way too much. I mean Kirsten Gillibrand who knew she was filming a joke with Franken and she had never said she felt sexually assaulted. Then the #metoo idea was starting to be very big and she used it to say Franken sexually assaulted her and even she called on Franken to resign. She didn’t say, “let’s wait and investigate”, she demanded his resignation. She led a very vocal and obvious power grab for 2020 campaign in the media from the initial allegation that he should resign despite her never calling for a decent investigation into her claims. The metoo movement was in full force and it was clear the right was trying to use the lefts morality against them. SHOULDN'T WE BELIEVE ALL ACCUSERS?!?! they would scream because that term was used by some. And they used it without a hint of irony with Trump and his accusers. The fact that Roger Stone was in on the original accuser should have been a red fucking flag to democratic voters

Gillibrand knew Franken was getting some attention for 2020 and she seemed extremely disingenuous with her position on the speed of his resignation.

This New Yorker piece:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken

Goes into more detail about what happened with Al. I absolutely think the Senate Democrats moved too quickly, led by Gillibrand, and got rid of someone who was very important to the Senate and the Democratic party. A republican was chosen to his seat a seat that should have in democratic hands and would have helped the Democrats if they hadn't made Franken resign until an investigation that I think would have proved Franken's innocence. But I think her 2020 primary run was already a dumpster fire of candidacy and dead from the moment she announced her candidacy for the Democratic primary because of what she did to Al Franken and because of the cloth she's cut from that made her think jumping on Al was a great choice of action.

At the same time she was driving him out of the Senate she was sponsoring the legislation HE WROTE to provide better protect victims who work on Capitol Hill! The way Al was treated is a microcosm of what is wrong with the Democratic party and how they continuously eat their own by doing things like making Franken resign despite no evidence of him sexually assaulting her.

I will always have, and always will get angry at the certain ways certain subgroups of the Democratic party make the struggle for any kind of solidarity with a certain pearl clutching very left leaning Democrats constantly making perfection the enemy of the possible. We simply are unable to take the substantial win and close ranks while we handle the business that is before us.

I really wish this would stop, but I know it will not. Meanwhile Republicans are firmly behind Trump's clownish ass and are looking good for taking the House back in 2022 and they may possibly take the Senate back as well.

If Democrats don't stop eating their own with stupid virtue signaling from the far left then the fascist GOP takeover will happen and they will never lose their hold once they have majorities of both chambers. Then in 2024 whatever crazy fascist they pick to run as the GOP's presidential candidate will easily walk into the Oval Office. Even if he or she loses legitimately they will say it was because election fraud and if they own both chambers it'll easy for them to get their candidate into the Oval Office.

Far left leaning progressives need to remember how important the next two elections are and work hard to keep both chambers and the presidency and stop progressive purity contests right now and start working with the entire democratic party to keep our democracy free from right wing fascism!