Politics / MAGA’s Reaction to the Epstein Files Reveals Total Moral Collapse The right’s moral charade was always going to be undone by the Trump of it all.
I’m not sure we’re terrified enough about the American right’s scrapping even its own scant moral boundaries.
The right still has morals for days when it comes to Black folks, immigrants and trans people.
Wilhoit’s Law—coined by music composer Frank Wilhoit in a now-famous 2018 comment on a political science blog—neatly captures this truth.
The right’s reaction to the Epstein files disclosures is the clearest evidence of this.
That might also explain why conservatives, in rebutting the need for greater transparency about the files’ contents, unfailingly bring up the appearance of Bill Clinton’s name in the Epstein files.
The notion of sincere moral outrage grounded in right and wrong, instead of political advantage, is genuinely lost on them. »