Virtue‑signaling invites political undoing

When politicians publicly adopt moral maxi‑positions as identity signals rather than procedural commitments, those same positions become asymmetric liabilities if they are personally implicated. Campaigns and parties will rapidly disavow signallers once accusations emerge, producing faster collapse than in more ambiguous policy controversies. — This reframes scandals not only as personal failings but as predictable systemic risk where moral posturing concentrates downside onto signallers and accelerates institutional distancing.