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Pancake's avatar

Great column, but the footnote is incorrect from my experience. I have relatives who have purchased the cemetery plots and held the funerals in cases of miscarriage. There is no lack of authenticity to their belief in personhood. I think it is a major mistake many liberals and progressives make to think otherwise.

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Doctor Memory's avatar

In Trump’s case the incuriousity seems justified: if you ask him, he will produce some word salad that involves saying his own name repeatedly and otherwise carries no actual meaning. In practice he will sign any bill that a republican legislature puts in front of him. (This set of affairs applies to most policy questions outside immigration and trade.)

Making McCarthy and McConnell answer the question on the record seems like a better use of everyone’s time.

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