Marcia Kelbon left the Republican party over platform disagreements in order to launch an independent bid for the open seat vacated by retiring Representative Steve Tharinger. She won a spot on the November ballot primarily because the Democrats split their vote between three candidates and a Democratic Socialist of America.
The psychiatrist Jonathan Shay and his colleagues introduced the term “moral injury” in the 1990’s to describe the effects on others when there is a “betrayal...