For years now Republicans in general, and Utah Republicans in particular, have sought to hold the moral high ground as advocates for, if not perfect exemplars of, American values.
It can be hard and unappreciated work in a society that doesn’t always find such values compelling or convenient. And it doesn’t take much to bring the whole tent crashing down around you.
Which is why it is so dispiriting to hear, again, Rep. Chris Stewart abandon the high road of American virtues and choose instead to belittle the murder of a U.S.-based journalist on the grounds that the cruel regime that apparently ordered it is an ally and the U.