The attorney Alan Dershowitz has long since joined the not-as-exclusive-as-I-wish-it-were club of public figures I once admired but no longer respect. As with most of them, I wonder to what extent he changed and to what extent I was duped. Usually, I decide it's at least a little of each.
Once upon a very long time ago, he seemed to stand for principles. Since a year or so before he signed onto Team O.J., those principles seem to be that it's very wrong for any matter of law to be trending without Alan Dershowitz getting on TV and Alan Dershowitz selling books. He is now making the rounds hawking a book that says it's wrong for people to be talking about impeaching Donald Trump even though, as Matt Yglesias points out, no one who could perhaps make that happen is trying.
As Yglesias further notes, Dershowitz has been complaining about being "shunned" at Martha's Vineyard because of his advocacy. So, um, what exactly is wrong with people avoiding someone with whom they do not wish to associate? I'm avoiding a number of people these days for an array of reasons. You probably have your own list. Mine is mostly people who don't talk to me but at me, like I've been put on this planet to do naught but marvel at their infallibility.
I doubt I'll ever find myself in the same room as Alan Dershowitz but if I do, he'll probably join another one of my little lists.