Supporting Gillibrand, Harris, etc., while opposing Franken's resignation

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23. Agreed: it's complicated

However, no one coordinated the accusations against Trump. Indeed, he is on tape bragging about having done exactly what he is accused of, where Franken's main accuser seems to be a manufactured creation of one of Trump's pals.

One can always conveniently recall incidents years or even decades past in a light different from what one thought at the time. However, with Moore and Trump, they seem to be gross offenses where the victim was intimidated into silence by bulling, money or political rank (of course a Prosecutor can scare the wits out of a 14 year old girl, especially in the south, where I'm from). Franken's "accusers" seem to have been mined and refined, coached and urged on. They just don't ring true as women offended, and comedians don't carry the intimidation power that a prosecutor or a billionaire does.

As for Trump, I think his accusations should have been enough to keep people from voting for him, although not to disqualify him. The disqualification should have been in the minds of the American voters already: odious personality, shocking ignorance, and flagrant dishonesty. That they weren't is a testimonial to the power of Fox Noise and the willingness of millions to vote for a garden slug for president as long as it has that magical R in front of it.