The courage of Cassidy Hutchinson
Even without Donald Trump, says our departing columnist, the Republican Party may be unreformable
Americans learned something shocking from Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony to the January 6th committee this week, but it was not about Donald Trump. The fact that the 45th president is vile and corrupt was clear long before he won the Republican nomination in 2016. What was more remarkable about the 26-year-old former White House aide’s account of events before and during the Capitol Hill riot was that someone so embedded in Trumpworld had the moral compass to provide it.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “The courage of a conservative”
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