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How to be a Hack, With Hugh Hewitt

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A few commenters alluded to this, which is hilarious:

How dare Painter attack a war hero!

Via Pierce, who observes:

Of course, if my son was working for Pruitt, as Hewitt’s son does, then I might conclude that Pruitt is the very model of the modern major environmentalist.

The primary engine of Pruitt’s entire career—and, believe me, he’s got plans for the future, too—has been contempt: contempt for the government, contempt for the environment, contempt for science, and contempt for any concept of limits on any of the people to whom he has sold his favor.

In this, he is the most powerful example of the fact that what Republicans now deplore as “Trumpism” existed in their party long before the president* came along. There is nothing that Pruitt has done—both in office and out—that would not have been done under any Republican president since Ronald Reagan was inaugurated. (Listening to Hewitt explain how “policy” was driving the resistance to Pruitt’s vandalism was to hear even further evidence of this proposition.) Trumpism is modern conservatism with dementia, but the policies were less than sane all along.

And the Republican Party has far, far more Hewitts than Painters, exactly because Pruitt is delivering policies that, while lunatic nonsense that places them far outsider the orbit of major conservative parties in most if not all liberal democracies, are also what most Republican elites want.

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