It's human, yes. Happens to the baker, the banker, the barber, the surgeon. But it is necessarily different when it happens to the preacher, the president, the great man. To accept a higher calling is to accept a higher responsibility. Unfortunately, from Bill Clinton on down, we keep seeing great men shirk that responsibility.
People give in.
I'm not without sympathy for that. But at the same time, I'm impatient with having to stand braced for moral hypocrisy from those who are supposed to embody nobler things. We can't, of course. But that doesn't mean you stop trying. Because in the act of reaching, we are ennobled.