Oleg Zabluda's blog
Wednesday, May 09, 2018
 
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Schneiderman’s louche ethics have been well known [...] But Schneiderman was such an exemplar of a progressive-activist hero—suing Exxon, working in concert with Robert Mueller to obtain pardon-proof convictions against Trump associates, speaking at the Women’s March—that people who probably knew better looked away from evidence of his wrongdoing. Even the closest friends of one of Schneiderman’s victims encouraged her not to speak out, “arguing that Schneiderman was too valuable a politician for the Democrats to lose.” Like Harvey Weinstein and other prominent liberals who spoke out on behalf of women’s issues, Schneiderman’s power and prestige protected him, for a time, from public accusation.
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https://www.city-journal.org/html/eric-schneidermans-inevitable-fall-15890.html
https://www.city-journal.org/html/eric-schneidermans-inevitable-fall-15890.html

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