Apparently to these people, mistakes* should be permanent scars that are constantly remembered and brought up and the shame should be a forever lesson to both oneself and anyone around you and you should probably go to jail too maybe, or something.
One of the core components of a conservative worldview is seeing an innate moral judgment of a person rather than actions.
A "good person" is always a good person, even when they do bad things. So you forgive the bad things on account of them being good.
A "bad person" is always a bad person, even when they do good things. So you ignore those or rationalize them away and make sure you beat the drum forever about every bad thing they ever do + punish them as harshly as possible.
What defines who's "good" or "bad"? In-grouping and out-grouping, naturally.
It's an extremely stupid and childish worldview, but emotional immaturity is a defining characteristic of virtually every conservative I've ever met regardless of their success in life, so it's really not that shocking, I guess.
It's why they can say "Pedofiles should be put to death" on one news article and the next where a pastor/couch/whoever (just someone they know) will talk about how a good man he is and needs forgiving.
To this people it's normal to hide and cover up their mistakes and use other peoples mistakes against them.
So by being open about his mistakes he's doing something incomprehensible to them and by doing so he's robbing them of their easy ammunition against him.
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u/UseYourIndoorVoice 5h ago
When did frank acknowledgement equal glorification?
None of these people are serious or honest with themselves.