...this was a striking exhibition of both cowardice and confusion. The performers did not flee a politicized event. They politicized it by fleeing....the concert was always going to carry political weight, and their cowardice only added more. Had McBride, Michaels, and the rest simply taken the stage, they would have modeled something Americans desperately need to see, the idea that love of country can sit apart from partisan combat. By bailing, they deepened the very division they pretended to mourn. It was a self-inflicted embarrassment.
IIRC there is a word for that.... 🤔