Of the many ways Donald Trump has degraded American politics, one of the more underrated shifts is how he's created permission for Republican politicians to act like childish brats. They used to feel obliged to fake maturity in public appearances, but now the typical Republican leader displays the emotional regulation of the drunkest person left at the bar at 3AM. The most recent example comes courtesy of Dan Kelly, the election denying anti-abortion fanatic who just received a walloping at the polls in Tuesday's Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
"I wish that in a circumstance like this, I would be able to concede to a worthy opponent," whined after he lost to Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz in the hotly contested race. He went on to claim Protasiewicz "demeaned the judiciary" by supposedly running a "deeply deceitful, dishonorable and despicable." He then called her "a serial liar."
