Empowerment-oriented women have been loudly and proudly celebrating the fact that Dianne Feinstein was the longest serving female senator in U.S. history.
Do they know they are shooting themselves in the foot?
Ms. Feinstein’s hammerlock hold on power in California and in the nation runs against the whole concept of term limits, which is perhaps the most fundamental idea of democracy. Power corrupts. Long-running power corrupts even more. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Gender makes no difference.