Uygur's Exposé of a Dead Lindsey Graham Is Irrelevant and Hypocritical Moral Posturing from a Left Without Standards
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The Gist
The author says digging up a dead senator's private sex life isn't news, isn't fair to his sister, and doesn't show the Left is any more moral. He argues Democrats have no standards of their own, so their lectures about Republican hypocrisy are empty. Keeping standards and sometimes failing them is better than having none.
Conclusion
The Young Turks' October Surprise about the late Lindsey Graham's sexual conduct is a worthless, hypocritical attack that should not move voters. The Left, having abandoned moral standards, is in no position to lecture the right on morality, and Uygur is no better than Graham.
Premises
- Lindsey Graham is dead, so judgment for his sins belongs to God, and exposing his private conduct is only newsworthy if it relates to a continuing betrayal of the country, which the allegations do not appear to do.
- His sister Darline, who is running for his seat, should not be judged for his private conduct, and failing to report him does not make her unfit for the Senate.
- Voting Democratic would not restore traditional morality to the Senate, since Democrats have their own record of sexual misconduct and defend behavior that conservatives criticize.
- The modern Left holds that establishing behavioral standards is illegitimate because failure to meet them discredits the standards and those who advocate them, and the author calls this reasoning wrong.
- Hypocrisy is not worse than abandoning standards altogether. Standards remain valid even when people fail to meet them, and it is better to fail a high standard than to have a low one or none.
- Accountability for standards is worthwhile only when it is exercised by people who believe in those standards, and the Left does not.
- Graham's discretion about his private life is preferable to the Democrats' sin without discretion.
Assumptions
- The allegations concern only private sexual conduct and have no connection to Graham's official acts or to Darline's fitness for office.
- Democrats and leftist commentators can be treated as a single moral collective, so the failings of some members discredit the group.
- The Left's moral inconsistency (the tu quoque) is relevant to whether the exposé deserves attention.
- Voters would punish Darline Graham for her brother's conduct if the story had traction.
- The author's characterizations of Democrats, the Clintons, and others are accurate and representative.
- Discretion about sin is a morally meaningful alternative to hypocrisy, rather than concealment.
- A person's moral authority to raise a standard depends on their own adherence to it.