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Jennifer Bates testified before the United States Senate earlier this month, but she’s just now starting to get nervous. “I’d gotten over the butterflies, but this week my stomach is amplified with them because the closer we get…” she says, pausing to search for the right way to express exactly …

The satirist Ambrose Bierce, author of the Devil’s Dictionary, once defined radicalism as “the conservatism of tomorrow injected into the affairs of today.” What Bierce wittily captured — that today’s radicals are tomorrow’s normies — means that at any given moment, the current political establishment will be fighting off the …