One of the challenges of being an elected Republican in the MAGA age is having to explain to an increasingly skeptical constituency how your principles and beliefs can turn on a dime depending on the whims of an unstable and increasingly delusional president.

Witness my congressman, Mike Simpson, who, until Tuesday, employed every tool at his disposal to evade having to say or do anything that remotely touched on Donald Trump’s relationship with the sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

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