“We don’t hold these institutions to nearly high enough standards on pragmatic output,” outgoing Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) told me in an interview the last week of December. He was talking about the institutions he is entering — academic institutions — but he could have been talking about the one he is exiting: Congress.

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