After one incident, I thought Franken should be censured. Now with a second he needs to go. But I don't get where that columnist is coming from, Minnesota isn't likely to replace Franken with a solid conservative. In all probability there will be a liberal D in that seat.
But her comments are why some of us are disgusted with the system. At no point should any American be "Party Uber Alles". Another reason why we should eliminate party protections and allow them to die, as they used to do. It's like when a coach starts failing, people have too much emotional investiture to let them go. People have too much emotional investiture in being a D or an R that they can't see both should be allowed to die from rot and be replaced by newer, more real, organizations.
If you read the column, she fears that Franken, if he goes, will not be the last one to fall. And, because there are a number of Dem Senators in states with Republican governors, she worries that those Dems could (temporarily, anyway) be replaced by Republicans.
Look, I get what you guys are saying. This is clearly a shameless way to approach these matters. But don't kid yourselves that it's rare. It's not rare -- what's rare is for somebody to be honest about it.