Moral Equivalence is Camouflage for Moral Cowardice
One party stands for life, freedom, and unalienable rights. The other stands for raw power.
Wed Sep 2, 2020 Bruce Thornton
NRO’s Jim Geraghty in his daily column indulged one of the NeverTrump favorite rhetorical devices: That the president is just as bad for the Republic as the radical Democrats, and neither side “wants to solve real problems.†Apart from the common mistaken notion that the Founders created our political order “to solve problems†rather than protect the liberty of states, towns, civic society, families, and individuals, this tic often obscures an unwillingness to identify clearly those guilty of creating conflict and disorder by equally apportioning guilt to both sides.
Moral equivalence becomes the camouflage for moral cowardice, a fear to assign responsibility where it is due.
During his discussion of the Democrats’ dilemma over how to spin the ongoing riots, Geraghty can’t help sniping at Trump:
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