Many today would consider the adjective in the phrase “cynical politics” to be a pleonasm. We may look back wistfully at periods in history when statesmen rose above politics; when those running for public office were not afraid to campaign and govern on noble principles; when an office-seeker’s political career took a back seat while he stood up for what was right; when politicians placed a higher value on morality than on demagoguery and the latest public opinion polls.

I mean, what noble principals do conservatives have? They hate half of the Americans around them, and they obsess over their genitals and their children’s genitals, and will sell out everything this country stands for in service of that hate.