Add in political slants on top of this, if you're a R and make a mistake, the Ds pounce on you to paint a picture that all Rs are like this. Likewise, if you're a D, the Rs will relentlessly shame you as well.
The problem starts with the lack of responsibility and restraint and the willingness by so many to judge and shame someone openly.
These people who judge (mostly) in the name of morality and Christianity, are themselves not being very Christ-like per scripture: “He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone at her.”