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Read Since President Elect Trump named Matt Gaetz as his choice for attorney general, I've been thinking about the place of deviancy in American politics, and I've been thinking about an old essay by the late Senator Scholar Daniel Patrick Moynihan and how it remains relevant today.
Here is my essay Defining Deviancy down and down and Down it's been a little more than three decades since Daniel Patrick Moynihan published his famous essay on defining deviancy Down.
Every society, the Senator scholar from New York argued, could afford to penalize only a certain amount of behavior it deemed, quote unquote, deviant.
As the stock of such behavior increased, whether in the form of out of wedlock births or mentally ill people living outdoors or violence in urban streets, society would most easily adapt not by cracking down, but instead by normalizing what used to be considered unacceptable, immoral or outrageous.
Perspectives would shift, standards would fall, and people would get used to it.
Moynihan's great example was the St.
Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, in which four gangsters killed seven gangsters in 1929.
The crime so shocked the nation that it helped spell the end of Prohibition.
By the early 1990s, that sort of episode would barely rate a story in the inside pages of a newspaper.