Opinion: Do we still feel shame in a shameless era?
By Nancy Gibbs March 11 at 5:24 PM Nancy Gibbs is the visiting Edward R. Murrow professor of press, politics and public policy at Harvard University.
Neither extreme satisfies our instincts for either justice or mercy. So how do we sustain values in an era that seems to dilute them? It’s worth asking each day that Ralph Northam remains in the Virginia governor’s mansion, Rep. Steve King plans his next campaign after being stripped of committee assignments and Rep. Ilhan Omar defends her positions on Israel even as Democrats melt down over how to condemn her for how she expresses them.
Trump’s continued success is clearly changing the math for others who come under fire. Northam, pilloried for days after his yearbook blackface photograph circulated, chose to gut it out, through a mangled apology, a walk-back , then a disappearance from public view. He refused to heed demands from across his party to resign on the grounds that he could no longer govern effectively, as did King. Omar and her allies dismiss her offenses as the collateral damage of diversity and free speech.
While Twitter crackles with indignation, it falls to voters to weigh the evidence: Did the offense occur 30 years ago or this morning, was it an error or a pattern, does the accused take responsibility, demonstrate a capacity for change? King was hardly unreasonable to announce his reelection plans, because his long history of race baiting has yet to sink him with Iowa voters.
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