Given that Senator Ted Kennedy killed a young woman with his reckless behavior in 1969, tried to cover it up and suffered zero consequences as a result, I’m going to suggest you are giving past generations far too much credithttps://twitter.com/Douglasreber/status/1181540816977682432 …
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I didn’t say it’s the only damage and I never implied it’s a good thing. I implied the opposite to be specific. Nor is it a small thing if you think about how not fearing to act in an absurd way causes the wheels to come off our norms, most of which are upheld informally
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So shame-enforced norms as a line that when crossed opens the door to a lot of damage? It’s a big one, to be sure, though I’d probably rank a couple of other features of this style of politics higher on the damage score

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