[OPINION] Jeff Flake plants a flag

Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona on Capitol Hill in May. Credit Mark Wilson/Getty Images

By David Brooks | The New York Times

(Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussion purposes only.)

Do you ever get the feeling we’re all going to be judged for this moment? Historians, our grandkids and we ourselves will look and ask: What did you do as the Trump/Scaramucci/Bannon administration dropped a nuclear bomb on the basic standards of decency in public life? What did you do as the American Congress ceased to function? What positions did you take as America teetered toward national decline?

For most of us, it’s relatively easy to pass the test. Our jobs are not on the line when we call out the mind-boggling monstrosity of what’s happening. For Republican senators, it’s harder. Their consciences pull them one way — to tell the truth — while their political interests pull them another way — to keep their heads down.

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