Tom Nichols

and he got caught having an affair with a call girl an escort yeah who was also um unhappily to his finding out um also boinking a kgb agent so this was all very bad and profumo resigns and he vanishes and he spends the he never goes in front of the camera again

He resigns as minister.

He spends the rest of his life just doing good works, like supporting charities and setting up foundations.

Like when he dies 40, 50 years later, even the queen says, this was a good man who paid his price and created all these great things.

These people have no sense at all.

They take their cues from Donald Trump, which is...

anything that you want to do donald trump has no real sense of right and wrong donald trump simply has a sense of works for me doesn't work for me um you know good for me bad for me that's it that's the only compass in donald's donald trump's world and so these guys get caught doing stuff and they say well

what okay so you know i'm a national embarrassment and i've shamed my family and i've brought this credit upon the government of the united states but i can still i can still work here right i still get the limo if somebody's going to bring me coffee okay i'll stay because there's no inner compass you know that that a guy like perfumo had to say you know i did a bad thing

I need to go get right with my family, my God, my sense of myself, nothing.

These people all live their life on the surface and it's all about what can I get away with and how rich can I get?

And that, you know, that's not what you want.

Look, if Howard Letnick wants to live his life that way, that's between him and God.

It's none of my business.

But when you are a public servant and a member of the cabinet and you're vice president of the United States, then it becomes my business.

And people like this, I wish that they would have just a modicum.

of shame.

It's their superpower.

It really is this, this inability.

It's almost like that they joined the trunk train and there's like a gland that's just like surgically removed from their neck or something that says you will never feel shame again.

It's like they cut that nerve, you know, and then they never feel shame again.