An overly-brisk moralism is now afoot, among salivating DFLers: 'We'd normally be inclined to look the other way, but given these people achieved political stature based on what have been revealed to be false personal claims, then--in this case, with regret--we have every right to lash out at them.'
The crocodile tears don't convince, IOW. Kevin Hoffman: Koch made a giant ass out of herself. I mean, did she in fact make 'a giant ass out of herself'? To whom? By having an affair? It takes a lot to make me cry.
O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,
With saints dost bait thy hook!
With saints dost bait thy hook!
Hoffman zings Michael Brodkorb on thin grounds: 'It must have been a familiar feeling, because his wife called 911 on him in June after his angry outbursts scared her and their three children.'
Do we have reason to accept Hoffman's assertion, above? Hoffman takes on faith one individual's narrative. The police report makes clear: The allegations Hoffman mentions--that Michael Brodkorb had 'angry outbursts' that 'scared her and their three children' both come from one source: Sarah Brodkorb.
When I hear one participant describe 'what happened' in a non-violent verbal dispute, I want to hear the other side's perspective too, prior to playing stenographer to one party. Hoffman feels empowered to accept Mrs. B's narrative (I mindread) because Michael Brodkorb is politically unpopular, a Roy Cohn figure to liberals, and because women's allegations of abuse are deemed authoritative, within present-day polite society.
This hour's undiscussible DFL moral intuition--that when we deal with bullies, we must adopt their modus operandi--is not in fact self-evident.
Minnesota DFLdom has its own McCarthyism problem, evidenced by the unseemly response we've observed to what appears a banal little middle-aged, middle-class matinee.
