Powerline by Steven Hayward 4/15/2022
We noted yesterday and today the sudden and seemingly coordinated effort to drive California Senator Dianne Feinstein from office. Today The New Republic (the in-flight magazine of the Clinton Administration—those were the days) weighed in, with a column from Walter Shaprio: “Dianne Feinstein Can Resign Now With Dignity. . . DiFi, don’t be the Democrats’ Strom Thurmond.”
The real subtext of the subhed is clear, and it ain’t the Strom Thurmond parallel: “DiFi, don’t be another Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” The New Republic was one of the leading voices urging Ginsburg to resign from the Supreme Court while Obama was still in office, but she stubbornly refused. And we know how that turned out.
It would seem unlikely that there is much risk to the Democrats’ Senate balance given California’s partisan imbalance, but the TNR story, if you read it carefully, is perhaps another indicator of how alarmed Democrats are about their prospects in November:
More:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/04/operation-dump-feinstein-gains-steam.php
