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Christine Flowers: The new profiles in courage Christine Flowers November 19, 2025 November 18, 2025
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I never liked John Fetterman. He was too far to the left, or so I thought. Too weird. Too much of a narcissist who did things the way that he did them to attract attention, without respecting tradition, or sartorial expectations.
I also never liked Marjorie Taylor Greene. She was too far to the right, or so I thought. Too weird. Too much of a narcissist, who did things the way that she did them to attract attention, without respecting tradition, or sartorial expectations.
Admiring them both as profiles in courage, limited as that courage is, was not on my bingo card for 2025. And yet, here we

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