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Editor’s note: The following is an exclusive excerpt from "How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will" by Sen. John Kennedy. Copyright 2025 by John Kennedy. Published with permission from Broadside Books and HarperCollins Publishers.

For the first few months of 2017, as I struggled to find my footing in the United States Senate, the Democratic Party , most of the media, the left-leaning think tanks, the academics, and most of the bureaucrats – in short, all the permanent Washington types – commenced an all-out assault on the man who just won the White House. They accused him of everything except abandoning his children to wolves.

I’d been in politics for a while; I’d seen its dark side. But in all my ye

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