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Hypocrisy and shamelessness
A recurring argument here and in our circles on Facebook has concerned how much to make of Democratic hypocrisy on limits of power in the course of allying against the Trump administration. In this morning’s LA Times I make the case that hypocrisy is far from the greatest worry about political morality, and that there’s something to be welcomed in the out-party’s usual rediscovery of liberal norms. The bigger concern is the rejection of norms altogether.