A pugilist who has emerged at a time when someone needs to start throwing punches.

Ian Tuttle writes at National Review,

Senator McCain’s penchant for name-calling betrays an obliviousness to this mood manifesting itself within the Republican party — the suggestion that there might just be something to be angry about. It’s not, as Representative Joaquin Castro (D., Texas) suggested on Sunday’s Meet the Press, mere “stereotyping” against immigrants. It’s 12 million people in the country illegally, and an administration that wants to welcome them, then open the border to more. It’s Obamacare and mandates rewritten to convenience the president’s party in midterm elections. It’s terrorism and trigger warnings and Anthony Kennedy and Iran and the IRS. Many conservatives are having their Howard Beale moment: They’re as mad as hell, and they don’t want to sit down and take it anymore.

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