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Charlie Pierce, whom I greatly admire, loves to post the Chris Rock clip where he talks about a man who says, "I take care of my family," as if that's something to be commended, and Rock then says, "You want a cookie?" In a sense, that's true here: Cassidy Hutchinson did the right thing. That should be simple.

Except that she is young, she was put in a difficult position, and then it would have been so much easier for her to sell out, and she didn't. She is indeed heroic in the way that we have to have different standards of and for heroism. She is certainly a lot more heroic than just about anybody else who worked in that building in those four years. In fact, I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone more heroic or admirable.

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