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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday,

October 26th. I'm Dorothy Wicenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. On Wednesday, Senator

Flake of Arizona announced that he would not be seeking re-election in 2018. Unlike almost all of his

colleagues, Flake has been a persistent critic of Trump.

In his speech on the Senate floor, he delivered a blistering condemnation of Trump

and a rebuke to GOP leadership.

If we simply become inured to this condition, thinking that it is just politics as usual,

then heaven help us, without fear of the consequences and without

consideration of the rules of what is politically safe or palatable, we must stop pretending

that the degradation of our politics and the conduct of some in our executive branch are

normal. They are not normal. Reckless,

outrageous, and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is

when it is actually just reckless, outrageous, and undignified.

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