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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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/ …
The servility of Cruz’s body language is so reminiscent of Trump’s in Putin’s presence.pic.twitter.com/kRSaVk14aM
Charmless mediocrity describes 99% of the men in the republican party
Early seasons Dwight Schrute.
I miss Hitchens, this prose is why.
Once Hitch really got his rhetorical claws into someone it was likely to smart for a bit.
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