Republicans Against Republicans

Published: April 5, 2022, 5:23 p.m.

If anything embodies the sort of Washington insiderdom that populists of both parties hate, it is the annual Gridiron dinner. The oldest of Washington's journalistic institutions, the white-tie dinner each year features politicians and journalists putting on comedy routines that are supposed to be self-deprecating, and sometimes are quite funny, but are also at times painfully flat.