“Well, in one word, it’s ambition. They want to climb higher, and they think if they just make one more deal with the Devil, then they’ll be able to do the right thing. But oftentimes, by then, they’ve forgotten what the right thing is. The Devil has a mortgage on the soul, and they’ve got to make the payment.”
— Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN), quoted by the New Yorker, on why so many of his colleagues “seem willing to gamble with the future of democracy just to avoid losing their jobs.”
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