“I say that oaths shall not enforce the wrong.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, line 432 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
“Falsely accusing critics of “treason,” castigating law-enforcement agencies for prosecuting allies, and telling police they should rough up suspects is inconsistent with Trump’s oath — and Pence’s. But these days, oaths, like norms, are for everybody else.”
2010s, 2018, Breaking democratic norms was rampant before the anonymous op-ed. Now it's a free-for-all (2018)
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Iuppiter.
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