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Commentary: Where are the responsible people when our politics needs them the most?

Adam Kinzinger listens during a select committee meeting investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol at Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill Oct. 19, 2021 in Washington, DC.

In recent weeks voters watched House Republican conference members shout down a press question about House Speaker Mike Johnson’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. They saw protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza repeatedly interrupt Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s testimony during a Senate hearing. They might be forgiven for asking the question, where are the responsible people when our politics needs them the most?

This question was a theme of German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s writings during his opposition to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party and

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