There is nothing easier in politics, business, or life than taking a shortcut or compromising your principles to gain an advantage at someone else’s expense.
If you’re Joe Biden and you know your son broke the law, but you also know you soon won’t be in office to protect him from the consequences, do you give him a blanket ten-year pardon?
If you’re Andrew Tate and you know you can make a lot of money by convincing gullible women that you love them, getting them to move to a foreign country for you, and then enlisting them to make money for you by working as cam girls, do you do it?
If you’re a liberal mayor and ANTIFA and BLM are viewed sympathetically by many of your constituents, do you hold the police back and let them tear up your city for multiple nights rather than allowing your police force to protect your citizenry?
If you’re some attention-seeking protester, do you set up your protest in the middle of the road, snarling traffic for hours so you can smugly tell the people who com…
