The ‘Moral Equivalent of War’ Turned on Americans

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) walks out of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on April 20, 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Commentary

The death on April 19 at the age of 93 of Walter Mondale—who may go down in history as the last honest Democratic politician (or the last but one, after his old boss, Jimmy Carter)—has taken me for a walk down memory lane: specifically to “the moral equivalent of war.”