There’s an old thought experiment in ethics known as the “Trolley Problem.” There’s an out-of-control trolley car speeding toward a collision in which dozens of people would die. There’s also a spur onto which the trolley could be diverted, but there’s a man standing on the tracks. You can either do nothing and let the collision happen or flip a switch and certainly kill the man on the spur. This is a problem that has given ethics students fits for years.
If the man on the spur were Ben Sasse and the people in the trolley car were the Nebraska Republican leadership . . . well, it would seem like a lot less of a dilemma in that case.