George Santos, we hardly knew ye — as a result of ye was buried underneath such a gargantuan pile of gaudy fabrications.
However we wrote about ye and the way.
In The Washington Submit, Dana Milbank wrote that “Santos confirmed simply how far one might go together with a lie, proper all the way down to the knee accidents he didn’t maintain whereas not enjoying volleyball on a scholarship he didn’t obtain for the faculty he didn’t attend.” (Because of Susan Casey of Palm Metropolis, Fla., and Melissa Guensler of Fredericksburg, Texas, amongst many others, for nominating that.)
In The Instances, Michelle Goldberg used her farewell to Santos to catalog the numerous miens of MAGA. “Completely different politicians characterize totally different strains: There’s the dour, conspiracy-poisoned suburban grievance of Marjorie Taylor Greene, the gun-loving rural evangelicalism of Lauren Boebert, the overt white nationalism of Paul Gosar and the frat boy sleaze of Matt Gaetz,” she wrote. “However nobody embodies Trump’s fame-obsessed sociopathic vacancy like Santos. He’s inheritor to Trump’s sybaritic nihilism, high-kitsch absurdity and impregnable brazenness.” (Joel Wizansky, New Haven, Conn., and Ian McLauchlan, East Lansing, Mich., amongst others)
To show from Santos to Ron DeSantis and his televised skirmish with Gavin Newsom, David Frum in The Atlantic noted one in all its many peculiarities: “Within the debate’s opening segments, the moderator, Sean Hannity, pressured repeatedly that his questions can be fact-based — like a proud host informing his friends that tonight he’ll serve the costly wine.” (Kathryn Scotten, Portland, Ore., and Richard Salkin, Neptune Seashore, Fla.) A aspect notice: I wrote my very own appraisal of that debate, revealed a day after final week’s e-newsletter, and you’ll learn it here.