This really says it all. It’s not about justice or women. For Democrats, it’s all politics. Bill Clinton proves that.

It is better to have a man who gropes women in office that to risk the appointment of a Republican, according to writer Kate Harding, who shared her views in an op-ed published Friday in The Washington Post.

Harding, the author of “Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America,” was responding to the scandal surrounding Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., who has been accused of groping a woman and shown in photos acting in a way that has brought forth calls for his resignation.

Harding, who has claimed in the past that the Republican party ruins “everything,” describes herself as, “a feminist who lives under a two-party system, where one party consistently votes against the interests of women while the other sometimes does not.”

Although she supports singling out Franken for political punishment, she noted that the problem is deeper than one man.

“(I)t becomes difficult to believe that Franken is the only sitting Democrat with a history of harassment, abuse or assault,” she wrote.

“If I believed for one second that Franken is the only Democrat in the Senate who has done something like this, with or without photographic evidence, I would see that as the best and most appropriate option. But in the world we actually live in, I’m betting that there will be more. And more after that,” she wrote.

“And they won’t all come from states with Democratic governors and a deep bench of progressive replacements. Some will, if ousted, have their successors chosen by Republicans,” she added.

Minnesota has a Democrat governor, making it likely that if Franken steps down, a Democrat would be appointed to fill the seat until a special election is called. However, Harding said in red states, liberals could be replaced by conservatives.

“In other words, if we set this precedent in the interest of demonstrating our party’s solidarity with harassed and abused women, we’re only going to drain the swamp of people who, however flawed, still regularly vote to protect women’s rights and freedoms,” she wrote.

Mocking Republicans and claiming they are morally and ethically inferior to their Democratic counterparts is not unfamiliar territory for Harding. One look at her Twitter, and her disdain toward the Republican party becomes apparent.

https://www.westernjournal.com/wapo-groping-franken-not-resign-might-replaced-republican/