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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the pure, ugly hypocrisy of wearing a mask with the texas flag upon his return was too much to bear.
I read it as a bizarre mix of chauvinism and contempt. “I am so proud of my state, which I am abandoning.”
Nobody resigns anymore. Politics is entirely the realm of the shameless now.
In his notebooks, Powell mentions a scene he considered for the war volumes wherein Widmerpool would be in a trench and get accidentally peed on. That would have taken the pleasure-in-humiliation bit up a notch.
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