Forbes July 23, 2024
They say that if you are going to do something, make sure you do it well.
This presumably applies to stonewalling.
Let me explain.
In the news today is the announcement that the head of the US Secret Service has resigned, a day after testifying in front of a congressional committee. The testimony was widely panned as outright stonewalling. Both sides of the aisle agreed on this point, amazingly so. It is extraordinarily rare in our dismaying modern times of pervasive polarization to reach an agreement on just about anything, let alone a matter of this gravity.
What happened?
You see, we must avidly ask ourselves how come stonewalling did not prevail.
Time to unpack this.
Stonewalling Is Both Reviled...