Bayh and his supporters ended up maintaining that it was no longer sufficient that a nominee had not engaged in any impropriety; now there must be no appearance of impropriety. Thus opponents of a nominee could raise an appearance of impropriety by false charges and thereby defeat him. It was a vicious circle: the nominee would not be condemned for what he had done but for what he had been accused of having done by his detractors.

I say, what is the meaning of this?

I'm not saying it isn't complicated; I'm saying that it could, and should, have been done better. Instead we get a bizarre Frankenstein's-monster of techniques where some character-glyphs are precomposed (with duplicates across multiple languages) and Zalgo-script is a thing. (see: https://eeemo.net/ )

Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science.