The Republican gamble on absolute cynicism

Friedrich Nietzsche would love this GOP

Jim Jordan.
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It's a strange thing to behold America's conservative party eagerly embrace absolute cynicism, but here we are.

In the public impeachment hearings that began Wednesday with testimony from William Taylor, chargé d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine, and George Kent, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, Americans saw two very different modes of comporting oneself in public life.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.