Al Franken has promised under pressure to step down from the U.S. Senate “in the coming weeks.” He was not accused of such grave crimes as rape or preying on underage children. He was accused instead of grabbing, fondling, lunging at and humiliating seven women. If true, and I think we see a pattern here, this would make him a pig, a bully and a hypocrite. His departure, while personally sad, is no loss to American democracy. It was not mad Puritanism that chased him from office; it was his colleagues’ finally, belatedly...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 08, 2017 00:11 UTC