Making the click-through worthwhile: Recent headlines, and decisions about who gets investigated and prosecuted and who doesn’t, tell us a great deal about how partisanship affects accountability; a surprising figure denounces Obama and says his policies were comparable to Trump’s; and an event you won’t want to miss.
What Recent Headlines Teach Us about Accountability
Recent lessons from the news . . .
If you’re a Democratic congresswoman from Minnesota, and you make your third anti-Semitic comment in two months, that groups like AIPAC “push for allegiance to a foreign country”– after saying American lawmakers’ support for Israel is “all about the Benjamins, baby” and “AIPAC,” and even earlier on defending a comment that Israel “hypnotizes the world” — you will get a lesser consequence than the first and second anti-Semitic comments. Congress will pass a generic resolution that declares “hatred is bad” and say nothing specific about you. Many of your colleagues will rush to your side and insist that you’re being unfairly ...
