Unserious Nation

How stands John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill” this Thanksgiving?
 
How stands the country that was to be “a light unto the nations”?
 
To those who look to cable TV for news, the answer must at the least be ambiguous. For consider the issues that have lately convulsed the public discourse of the American republic.
 
Today’s great question seems to be whether our 45th president is as serious a sexual predator as our 42nd was proven to be, and whether the confessed sins of Sen. Al Franken are as great as the alleged sins of Judge Roy Moore.
 
On both questions, the divide is, as ever, along partisan lines.