The fundamental dynamic underlying many disagreements about issues in America is the lack of accountability at all levels of society.
It starts at the top, but it goes all the way to the bottom.
The miserable chickenshit attempts by the students and leadership at Covington Christian are but one example of a general tendency of everybody to see accountability as something that everybody else needs a lot more of.
The book "mistakes were made (but not by me)" explores part of this issue.