Tidal wave moment: In one day, #MeToo cause makes political, cultural landfall
WASHINGTON — In the span of a single day, a long-building tidal wave made political and cultural landfall, with pent-up disgust over sexual abuse against women bursting onto an iconic cover of Time magazine, washing over Capitol Hill and potentially wiping away a once-promising political career.
After a solid few eons, the patriarchy had a rocky few hours Wednesday.
It began with Time naming as its Person of the Year, ”The Silence Breakers,” a group of women so vast as to be innumerable — the famous, not-so-famous and downright powerless who this year raised their voices against sexual mistreatment.
The day ended with Democrats exploding the career of a formerly bright star: One after another, a group of lawmakers, most of them women, called on their colleague Al Franken to resign from the Senate and he has scheduled a career announcement Thursday.