There are moments that call for political accountability and moments that call for a moral reckoning. The first befits a more ordinary type of transgression—it’s what we need when, for example, a president tries to go it alone in the face of congressional inaction. Such behavior may well be unconstitutional, sure, but almost benignly so. Because we have effective and conventional ways of dealing with episodes of this sort. Standard-fare accountability is necessary in any political order—and, in ours, it’s regularly provided.
That’s not our current situation.
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