At CNN Town Hall, Donald Trump Perfectly Embodies the GOP’s Cynical Debt Ceiling Game

If there is such a thing as a silver lining to the predictable, entirely-avoidable disaster of CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump, it is that he laid bare—as he always does—the cynical void at the center of the GOP. For months, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his cast of far-right allies have been performing a principled stand on the debt ceiling, insisting that they are responsible, good-faith actors who have been jerked around by President Joe Biden—putting the nation’s economic security into jeopardy. But with one exchange Wednesday night, Trump...