"Cruz’s error is not that he was shirking a duty he knew he should have been performing. It’s that he couldn’t think of any way he could use his power as a U.S. senator to help Texans in need. That’s a failure of imagination and of political ideology."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/ted-cruz-no-hypocrite/618060/
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That is exactly what stood out to me. I knew he was a selfish sleazebag, but this incident made me realize just how much his core concept of what the job entails differs from mine. (And, I think, most people's)