Because while we can and should laugh at this raging homophobe's comeuppance in popular culture, let's not lose sight of the disastrous realities of someone like Rick Santorum being given a platform, and the vindication that goes hand-in-hand with a presidential nomination from the Republican party, however unlikely that may look now.
It appeared to be the vindication that Mr. Herrington had sought all along.
"There has been interest and that would be the vindication that it's passed beyond theoretical.
In a statement, Healey and Barron said they were very pleased with the full vindication that the judgment gave them.
And it might be that there are actions that do not give rise to the possibility of vindication or of arbitrary closeness to vindication, but do limit the distance from vindication that is risked by choosing that action.
The chef is basking in the lip-smacking, table-thumping vindication that only a long, rough round of litigation can bring.
O'Higgins, by contrast, claims that in the Vindication Collins simply sets aside the problem of evil (O'Higgins, 1970, p. 63).
"There's a small bit of vindication that in a last-ditch effort Trump is adopting the same talking points that some Republicans had used a year and a half ago to try to find a sensible pathway forward on this issue," said Ryan Williams, a Republican strategist who worked as an adviser to Bush's 2016 presidential campaign and for 2012 nominee Mitt Romney.
[It revealed the rapper owned several albums by Collins.] At that point, I thought, wow, considering I did become a whipping boy for the '80s and '90s — slightly more so in Europe — this was to me vindication that what I was doing actually was OK.
I think the vindication of that is in the huge number of people who turned out and the good nature with which they paid their respects".
