Ep. 137
A week ago, voters handed both chambers of Congress to the Democrats. In Texas, James Talarico, the man Ken Paxton and Donald Trump called “Talafreako,” beat Paxton outright. He’s the first Democrat to win a Senate seat there since 1988. Last week we talked about wearing the insult on a T-shirt. This week, the guy in the shirt won.
So we’re taking a victory lap, and we’re not even pretending to be gracious about it. It turns out Americans a hundred years ago had a record for every stage of a good gloat. Tonight we play three of them, in order of increasing smugness: first the smile, then the smirk, then the belly laugh.
