A police officer walks past the wreckage of a Home Depot pickup truck, a day after it was used in a terror attack, in New York on November 1, 2017.
(JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)If there were one word that we should expunge from the political lexicon, it would be “cowardly.” This is not because there are no acts or deeds to which it can rightly be applied, but because our politicians and officials have lost the ability to use it aptly. They fail to make the proper moral distinction between cowardice and other qualities.
