King’s fall offers lessons for conservatives

The House of Representatives has overwhelmingly voted for a resolution of disapproval aimed at Representative Steve King of Iowa. All of his fellow Republicans supported the action — he even voted for it himself, to show his remorse — and earlier this week, the party’s leaders stripped King of his committee assignments. Several GOP members are telling him to resign.
The immediate cause of the rebukes is comments he made to the New York Times in which he seemed to suggest that “white supremacy” should not be considered offensive. In a statement a week following the original Times…