So, I have a friend who met Newt and wife on a cruise. She – who I trust, who holds similar beliefs as I, and who is not an idiot – enjoyed his company (please throw no stones). She and I have spent the subsequent three years since her encounter (I’m talking nauseating dissection) vainly trying to reconcile how one could stomach, much less enjoy, a person so vile. My usual retort in our discussions is that “Ted Bundy was charming too” but that’s reductive because rarely is evil so sociopathically black and white. I’m reduced myself to child-like questions: How does he sleep at night? I don’t know, I just don’t know, and that’s what keeps me up at night.
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