As law metastasizes in America, codes of personal behavior wither. One manifestation of the degeneration of private judgment is the president's evident incapacity even to imagine that honor might require his resignation. The Founders provided impeachment to cope with the likes of Clinton, a president who, by recidivist lying without remorse, has fallen below the threshold of minimal truthfulness and has traduced political discourse. He cannot speak credibly on grave matters, such as war. He should go, for the public good.
Public opinion is neither sufficient nor necessary to justify that.
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