What Is the Proper Level of Crippling Despair?

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 3:30 p.m.

b'Here\\u2019s the good news: The House Republican conference voted overwhelmingly against punishing Rep. Liz Cheney for her vote to impeach Donald Trump in defiance of the GOP\\u2019s populist wing. Here\\u2019s the bad news: That same conference also gave Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene a standing ovation and is disinclined to anathematize her conspiratorial paranoia. So, is everything completely terrible or just really bad? The COMMENTARY podcast debates the proper level of despair.'