1. Ted Cruz's current travails are a good occasion to revisit the single best piece of writing on the Texas Senator: @DouthatNYT description of Cruz as the Kenneth Widmerpool of American conservatism.pic.twitter.com/M04iIupFEM
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3. Hitchens on Widmerpool: "A monster of arrogance & conceit, but entirely wanting in pride. Bullying to those below him, servile & fawning to those set in authority, entirely without wit or introspection, he is that type of tirelessly ambitious, sexless, & charmless mediocrity"pic.twitter.com/JWZHfjYWIn
4. One thing that Anthony Powell captures, which is true of both Widmerpool & Cruz, is the strange masochism of the striver, the secret love of self-abasement & public humiliation. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cruz-texas-blizzard-mexico/ …
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