Like a lot of guys, I’ve watched “The Shawshank Redemption” more times than I can count. Which is why, when I heard the news that Gary Cohn had resigned as Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, I thought of Red’s (Morgan Freeman’s) somber line: “Every man has his breaking point.”

In the film, the remark is followed by the tale of how Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) busts out of Shawshank Prison. Dufresne, a former banker with a gift for numbers and a taste for risky trades, tunnels through a concrete wall and then crawls through a 500-yard sewer pipe to freedom, riches and a beach in Mexico.

Then he tells the press everything he knows about Samuel Norton, the evil prison warden, and his corrupt minions. Justice is richly served.

That could yet be Cohn’s story, too.

O.K., I’m getting carried away. Dufresne is a Christ-like figure, innocent of crime but wise to the world, who suffers grievously and gives greatly. Cohn is a Goldman Democrat who went into the White House with his eyes wide open, seemed to enjoy treating Steve Mnuchin as a finger puppet, and chose not to resign over Donald Trump’s shameful Charlottesville equivocation. Whether he quit out of horror of the president’s protectionist turn, or merely out of the pique of losing a policy argument, is an open question.