Contrary to the latest fashionable dogma, character is not everything in politics. It has its place, of course. But character at an orgy is no fun. “Nothing human is foreign to me,” said the Roman playwright Terence. If character were the sole way of evaluating the decency of people and their positive contribution to the world, then we would all fail as human beings.
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