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What The Debt Ceiling And George Santos's Career Have In Common

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Can't Take Your Eyes Off the Man?

I think to your point, it's like, well, since Trump whose scandals have even been more widely publicized than George Santos is. But I agree with Nate more broadly that the worst scandals are the ones that kind of confirm or feed into a pre-existing narrative. And that's like Marjorie Taylor Greene feeds into this narrative that the Republican Party is racist and extreme. Whereas this George Santos thing is just kind of, it's so unique, right? Like Nate said, nobody else has made these very outlandish specific lies before. So it can kind of more easily be put into a box. Americans love a fabulous guy's. They do. It's not their brand.

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