![]() ![]() ![]() Who are the worst of the worst? Who’s the most dangerous senator? Which House member is the biggest threat to democratic order? Which governor is most irresponsibly putting his or her state’s people at risk? Who mounted the most shameless defense of the January 6 insurrection? Which Fox News host is the most despicable? (OK, we probably know that one, so who’s the second-most despicable?) Who’s the most obnoxious and unscrupulous Twitter star? Who’s the most flagrant racist? And, of course, who is the worst Trump? (We know that one, too, so we added a “Second-Worst Trump.”) So The New Republic thought the time was right for a stocktaking. And the horrors extend well outside the halls of Congress, to the states and the right-wing media bubble and beyond. Some of the Republicans in the House of Representatives today make Henry Hyde look like Hubert Humphrey. Well, here we are 40 years on, and it just gets lower. Surely they couldn’t go any lower than that. ![]() Pat Robertson Newt Gingrich even people like Illinois Representative Henry Hyde, who at the time seemed about as ideologically extreme as you could get. Forty years ago, when the right wing was first ascendant in this country, the nation was introduced to some exotic characters the likes of whom most of us hadn’t seen before: Jerry Falwell Sr. ![]()
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