Jessica Tarlov

And that's for anyone who has a special job.

I'm not just talking about, obviously, you know, the leader of the free world.

But when you turn on the TV, right, and you see someone who's supposed to know something that you don't know and be there to impart, you know, some information upon you, that you want them—

to have some good discernment, a good judgment, right, in how they conduct themselves.

And we are so desperately lacking in people of good moral stead in positions of power when you see things like this.

And I'm not saying it doesn't make people, they can be incredible lawyers, bankers, artists, like all the things.

And I know that people are complicated and

You know, I'm a bit of a Pollyanna about things and a prude.

And so, you know, I'm not here to pass judgment on all of that.

But it does feel...

like as a society that we are really scraping the bottom of the barrel sometimes with the folks that are rising to the top and in how they are conducting themselves.

And it's underrated at the time how meaningful it is to have good and decent people in these roles, right?

That you never were thinking like, oh, is Barack stepping out on Michelle, right?

Or the Bushes,

Or the Reagans, right?

Like, it doesn't have to be partisan in any of this.

Like, people said awful things about Joe Biden.

You know, he was a guy who was clearly obsessed with his wife.

And that matters, right?

That you're not thinking about that he's going to show up in some emails like this, even in a tertiary way.