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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Feb 2021

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Feb 2021

      2. Widmerpool (pictured below) is the anti-hero of Anthony Powell 12-volume roman fleuve A Dance to the Music of Time. A delightfully detestable character, Widmerpool is graceless and awkward, a social climber without a moral code, an unloved go-getter.pic.twitter.com/nfrkMv1e3Z

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Feb 2021

      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

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Feb 2021

          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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        1. StandUpPaddleboardingThePandemicWaves‏ @HarlemSheiks 19 Feb 2021
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        1. Unvarnished Truth™  🇺🇦  🌻‏ @SRMillar3 19 Feb 2021
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          The servility of Cruz’s body language is so reminiscent of Trump’s in Putin’s presence.pic.twitter.com/kRSaVk14aM

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        1. Mark Kowalski‏ @mkowalski01 19 Feb 2021
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          Charmless mediocrity describes 99% of the men in the republican party

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        1. Jeff‏ @jb410s 19 Feb 2021
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          Early seasons Dwight Schrute.

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        1. DoubleBoosted‏ @commchf 19 Feb 2021
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          I miss Hitchens, this prose is why.

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        1. Ken Cunningham‏ @KenCunn77721220 19 Feb 2021
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          Once Hitch really got his rhetorical claws into someone it was likely to smart for a bit.

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