Our biggest loss in the Trump presidency is something no one wants to talk about: the hope of a generation of young Americans, who now see our politics revealed in all its ugliness as a place where people who believe in nothing, not even themselves, cling like death to their jobs
I hope that when we're all gone historians somehow find a way to register in their records that it was a discrete aim of the Republican Party at the start of the 21st century to destroy the hope of any American who believes that government service and communal action can be noble
I've been tasked by courts in multiple jurisdictions with representing thousands of defendants charged in some cases with truly heinous crimes, and nevertheless I can think of few crimes worse then the cynicism of someone like Joni Ernst trying to kill the hope of young optimists
