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The video of Joni Ernst, the Republican senator from Iowa, absolutely losing her cool at a recent constituent town hall was funny because it is somehow obscene and yet entirely relatable at exactly the same time. In response to attendees berating her about the fact that cuts to government programs like Medicaid will cause actual people to die—Republicans have been avoiding these town halls for a reason—Ernst tried to start a sentence a time or two, and then simply slumped into, “Well, we all are going to die, so …”

As my colleague Jim Newell counseled afterward in his excellent weekly newsletter the Surge : “We strongly encourage you to watch the clip , may

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