Almost everyone agrees there are too few standards of any kind left in America’s civic life. Our elected leaders should be trying to raise these standards, not lower them. By telling senators it’s acceptable to do the nation’s business in gym clothes, Chuck Schumer disrespects his office and the public trust it represents.

In doing so, he diminishes us all.

[Why run for the Senate if you don’t like its dress code? This entire exercise is absurd. We’re asked to pretend that Fetterman is fit for office when he can’t speak coherently in public and he comes to work dressed like a 14-year-old slacker straight out of the skateboard park. Fetterman should grow up, and Chuck Schumer should stop enabling this nonsense. — Ed]