Shortly after arriving in Washington, D.C. , 25 years ago, I learned something about the professional Republican class, the folks who made their money working for the party or its politicians.

While most congressional staffers were pretty conservative, there were plenty of people working as political professionals who didn’t really hold any beliefs very strongly at all. Advancing economic freedom , protecting gun owners’ rights , making the country more prosperous, or pushing a particular foreign policy — for a sizable portion of the political class, none of these things really mattered. Their job was to get Republicans elected.

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