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BEFORE THE TROUBLE STARTED, Fox News host Sean Hannity likened Matt Gaetz to a “young Mickey Mantle” of the right. The Florida Republican reciprocated by calling Hannity a “transformational figure of the media.” Together they became a virtual tag-team act on Hannity’s show, where Gaetz appeared on a near-nightly basis to tout Donald Trump, cry Marxism, and bolster Hannity’s talking point of the day. 

Then came reports of a federal investigation into whether Gaetz violated sex-trafficking laws. Screech. Their budding political romance was over like that. Gaetz has been a Hannity...