Moral Exhibitionism: The Hollow Virtue of Overreaction

Over at The Epoch Times, our favorite doctor has penned another commentary on the excessively emotional, hysterical, and overly dramatic reactions that have accompanied Donald Trump’s victory in last month’s U.S. presidential elections.

If they had been sentenced to death for the following day, they could hardly have been more emotional, or at least more expressive of emotion, but most of that emotion struck me as bogus, or at least not straightforwardly sincere. It bore the same relation to true feeling as hysterical paralysis does to the physical kind.

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