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ap: Farewell to George Santos, the perfect MAGA Republican

FILE — Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is surrounded by press outside the courthouse in New York where Donald Trump was on trial on April 4, 2023. A clout-chasing con man obsessed with celebrity, driven into politics not by ideology but by vanity and the promise of proximity to rich marks, Santos is a pure product of Trump’s Republican Party, Michelle Goldberg writes. (Mark Peterson/The New York Times)
FILE — Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is surrounded by press outside the courthouse in New York where Donald Trump was on trial on April 4, 2023. A clout-chasing con man obsessed with celebrity, driven into politics not by ideology but by vanity and the promise of proximity to rich marks, Santos is a pure product of Trump’s Republican Party, Michelle Goldberg writes. (Mark Peterson/The New York Times)
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No one embodies Trump’s fame-obsessed sociopathic emptiness like George Santos. He’s heir to Trump’s sybaritic nihilism, high-kitsch absurdity and impregnable brazenness.
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