Eric Swalwell has retired from both the California gubernatorial race as well as Congress -- may he enjoy whatever upcoming court proceedings await him, be they civil or criminal -- and this is good news for everyone except the California Republican Party and me, personally. Why me? Because the gears of the Carnival of Fools are greased with the oil of corruption and vanity, and we always suffer when we lose a reliable fount of such perverted hubris. Already this electoral season has seen a brutal cull of some of my favorite freaks: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andrew Cuomo, Jasmine Crockett, ...

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