Molly Jong-Fast: calls for Dianne Feinstein to resign not sexist or ageist

California senator absent for weeks as Democrats and progressives eye effect on pace of confirmations of liberal judges

Calls for Dianne Feinstein to resign from the US Senate because of ill health are not sexist or ageist, a prominent liberal columnist argued, as debate over the California Democrat’s absence continued.

“I don’t think it’s those things,” Molly Jong-Fast, a podcaster and Vanity Fair columnist, told MSNBC.