On Sunday afternoon, with a dusting of snow collecting on her shoulders, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar announced the launch of her presidential campaign. “Our nation must be governed not from chaos but from opportunity. Not by wallowing over what’s wrong, but by marching inexorably toward what’s right,” she said. “And it has to start with all of us.” But Klobuchar’s campaign launch, and the apparent spirit of her campaign, was quickly overshadowed by a deluge of allegations that the Democratic senator had a history of berating and humiliating her staff.
Well, first of all, I love my staff. I wouldn’t be where I am and we wouldn’t be able to pass all those bills and do all that work if we didn’t have a great staff. I am tough. I push people. That is true. but my point my point is, I have high expectations for myself, I have high expectation for the people that work for me, and I have high expectations for this country.
But having “high expectations” for your staff does not require treating them like shit. The only way to excuse the Klobuchar allegations is to conflate cruelty with feminism. It’s the reductive Bad Ass #GirlBoss model of empowerment that celebrates virtually anything women do—because a womanBut of course people did exactly that anyway.
But if Klobuchar’s treatment of her staff does dog her throughout her campaign, it will raise the question of whether a man with such a reputation would face the same scrutiny. Edmondson noted the unfair double standard that being “tough is a compliment for men but an insult when used on a woman.” “Women pay a larger price and have to walk the line of being nice and being competent and tough,” Sutton said. “In her defense, I wonder if a man acted that way, would he get such severe response, even reputationally.”Edmondson is also skeptical that Klobuchar’s poor treatment of workers implies that she’d be an unsuccessful president. Indeed, Klobuchar’s reputation is even
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