What About America?

The Whataboutism We Need Now.

Whataboutism is all the rage—a fixture of our unsettled political moment.

Democrats and Republicans reflexively respond to revelations of the latest wrongdoings from their own side with an unblinking, unthinking response: What about you?!

Purists recognize this as a logical fallacy of such enduring occurrence that it’s expressed in Latin: Tu quoque?

It’s …