Cohen: Patrick Brown affair unveils a world of metaphorical mob rule

In 2016, over a class dinner on an out-of-town class field trip, one of my students was recalling her experience with Patrick Brown, until recently leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
She had met him on a flight to Toronto, she told the group. She described Brown as a roué, I recall, a seducer who had texted her, invited her to a bar and, over time, “hit” on her. She would later come to work in his constituency office.
There was no discernible anger or hur