I’m still stuck on what happened before:We saw just how faithfully the Republican Party now worships at the church of nasty. He called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” back in the day. Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis got the “nasty” memo. In Iowa, they were campaigning, at least theoretically, as alternatives to Trump, so you would have expected them to be less, well, nasty. Both DeSantis and Haley wagered that in their party today, remade in Trump’s image, that behavior wouldn’t seem cheap and desperate.

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Persons: We’ve, I’m, nastiness, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Trump, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, —, DeSantis, Haley, Haley wagered Organizations: Republican Party, Trump Locations: Iowa