Face crime, body crime, clothing crime; these are the new offences that can raise the ire of the Left, so be warned. It is no longer enough to police your speech and opinions with the pieties of the day, correct attitudes will also be enforced, it seems. I draw these lessons from the Covington affair, which soared to prominence in major news outlets in mid-January, only to collapse suddenly, amid media embarrassment, as yet another Trumpian scandal that had crumbled to dust.
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