As Alexandra Pelosi filmed, she admitted: "I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more." More recently, a left-wing activist named Lauren Windsor surreptitiously recorded U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and subsequently shared snippets with the world.
Windsor, posing as a conservative Christian, pushed the conversation in her desired direction in expressing doubt about right and left compromising, and instead advocated victory for conservatives.
The activist making a fuss about Alito's mundane comments, presumably, does not think progressives should compromise.
Her decision to secretly record political enemies for a gotcha moment indicates as much.
Alito authoring the Dobbs decision that did not outlaw abortion anywhere but instead allowed states to choose indicates that he does not believe in riding roughshod over the Constitution to defeat the left.
"James O'Keefe and his minions at Project Veritas infiltrated my office, Democracy Partners, in 2016. We filed a lawsuit in 2017," Windsor wrote in 2023 before calling him a "Scumbag." Last week, she posed as a member of the religious right at the Supreme Court Historical Society's annual dinner in surreptitiously recording various attendees.
The situational ethics on display in the juxtaposition, and in Windsor projecting her own no-quarter mindset on Alito and then feigning indignation, gets to the heart of what animates the left: the ends justify the means.
Political difference, not ethical difference, amounts to the scandal for Windsor.
Last week, Lauren Windsor, a critic of such stings when perpetrated by conservative types, recorded a Supreme Court justice without his knowledge while portraying a false persona.
The latter recording received sensationalistic coverage upon its almost immediate release; the former sat suppressed for years and ignored by large swaths of the media upon its delayed release.
In the old country, Alito and Pelosi's ancestors called this avere due pesi e due misure or a doppio standard.
https://spectator.org/the-doppio-standard-on-the-alito-and-pelosi-recordings/
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