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Gloria Steinem criticizes Senator Mitch McConnell after silencing Senator Elizabeth Warren, Entity reports.

Gloria Steinem believes that Senator Mitch McConnell’s days as the Majority Leader of the Senate “are numbered.”

The outspoken feminist and activist was furious after he silenced Senator Elizabeth Warren for trying to read a 1986 letter from Coretta Scott King. This inspired Twitter hashtag “#LetLizSpeak” as well as the new feminist battlecry “Nevertheless, she persisted,” which is a line from McConnell’s speech condemning Warren.

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The Massachusetts Senator was stopped and then prevented from continuing to speak after she tried to read the King letter in opposition of Senator Jeff Sessions. He was later confirmed as Attorney General.

Steinem called the whole situation “ridiculous,” and pointed out the futility of McConnell’s efforts, since people have read Coretta Scott King’s letter all over the internet now.

Steinem, who was an active voice during the Women’s March on Washington, said that she had been part of a “big protest” about the whole ordeal.

And she doesn’t believe that McConnell will be in power for much longer.

She noted that the Democratic senators had objected to McConnell’s move to silence Warren, which he had done on the grounds of Rule XIX.

Of course, McConnell’s silencing of Warren – as she tried to read a powerful women’s letter – was made to seem even more sexist as he later allowed Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley to pick up where Warren had left off.

However, Steinem saw it as a small victory anyway because she believed that McConnell had needed to do it after realizing his mistake.

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She suggested that it may have been an “admission of failure” on his part. Steinem thought that allowing Merkley to read the letter likely meant that McConnell had realized he had failed and he changed his mind to finally let the letter through.

Either way, the feminist icon found the whole situation ridiculously unfair, and insisted that McConnell would not be getting away with it on her watch.

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