You cannot have civic virtue in the absence of personal virtue and you cannot have public virtue in the absence of private virtue. Stop excusing behaviors in your allies that you condemn in your opponents. We either need much, much more virtuous politicians or we need to lower the stakes. I think it will be easier to accomplish the latter than the former.
It has been my experience the more difficult path is the right one to take.
My original comment seems to have disappeared so I’ll try again:
The difficult path is usually the right one.
More needs to be written about lowering the stakes. It is, in my estimation, bizarre that we have lifetime appointments to any court, but especially SCOTUS. It is an anachronism that should be eliminated.
Steve