Al Franken was a threat because he was popular and progressive.

So the Dem party lied to him, they told him that they couldn’t afford the circus of a hearing (that they could have just not had) so they told him to resign, then they’d do the investigation and clear his name so he could run again.

As soon as he resigned, the same Dems told him that there was no point in a hearing.

He got kneecapped by his own party and people still try to act like it wasn’t a big deal.

The neoliberals running the party aren’t on our side, they were bought off long ago.