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If you want to understand both political parties’ unmooring at this moment, you might look at perhaps the most unlikely of proxies: none other than Matt Gaetz, the bomb-throwing former House member and failed nominee to become Donald Trump’s newest Attorney General.
Multiple media outlets reported Wednesday that the House Ethics Committee had secretly voted to release its report into Gaetz in the coming days. Recall that Gaetz resigned from the House in November just hours before the chamber’s ethics panel was set to release a reportedly damning investigation of his conduct related to sex, minors, cash, drugs, and lewd conversations. The questions around Gaetz’s conduct played a key role in Gaetz withdrawing his bid to be the nation’s top law enforcement official.
Gaetz quickly responded with a lengthy statement declaring his innocence …