Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is embroiled in a scandal involving blackface that he wore for a yearbook picture and some shows. He has apologized profusely. But apologizing profusely is not the issue, even if before God, his apology is sincere and complete. What matters is how he’s lived his life since. Has he been a mensch or a far-from-mensch?
Mitt Romney did an exponentially far worse thing in his youth, but he is certainly a better person now. As President we may not have agreed with him in everything, or anything, but he would have done the job with sincerity and responsibility. A mensch!
If a person were a mensch, they would never do such a dastardly thing again. If a far-from-mensch, it would be a better world if without our knowledge of their nasty past, they had already been weeded out.
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