Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, warned that American society is experiencing a deep cultural and legal decline fueled by moral relativism – the idea that individuals can define their own truth – among those on the political left.
Kline explained that retaining a mindset that seeks to abandon all ethical limits in political activism undermines the rule of law and allows political actors to justify harmful actions if they serve ideological ends.
“There’s been over a half century of deconstruction of the law through the moral relativism that has invaded our culture. In other words, you decide your own truth and then you fight for that truth, even if it interferes with the fundamental rights of another. All of law, man made law, that is words passed by a legislature or Congress, and if you can make the words mean anything that you want, then the law has no force behind it,” Kline explained on Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
“That’s what the left has been doing for some time,” Kline added.
He pointed to the recent rhetoric from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N-NY-08), who suggested doxxing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents by publicly exposing their identities as retaliation for the Trump administration’s enforcement of immigration law.
Kline (pictured above) called Jeffries’ rhetoric “out of control,” noting that it puts federal agents and their families at physical risk.
“This has also joined in a belief that the ends justify the means. In other words, everything’s on the table to achieve your objective and therefore, you can put others in danger. You can ridicule others. You can falsely make claims against others. Whatever it takes to achieve your political objectives. This is what we see on the left in this dissension into chaos. They are willing to dox federal agents that go into harm’s way and fight these gangs. They will post their names and addresses online, which of course places their families in jeopardy,” Kline said.
“It’s really out of control. There used to be guardrails, moral guardrails, to a right and wrong in our culture. Those guardrails are coming off,” he warned.
Kline emphasized that law enforcement officers are simply executing policies made by elected officials, which includes leaders like Jeffries, and accountability should rest with those policymakers and not with those tasked with carrying out legal directives.
“[Doxxing] is another example where the guardrails have been removed, that in the name of a cause, you’ll put agents who are just executing a policy that is determined by policymakers in jeopardy physically and their health in jeopardy. It is the deconstruction of culture. It’s the deconstruction of what America is all about,” Kline said.
“The accountability for policy should rest with the policymakers. That’s Mr. Jeffries himself, and he is taking those who execute the policy consistent with the law and putting them in harm’s way. It should not happen. It should be condemned. It should be soundly condemned,” he added.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
