“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it,” Upton Sinclair once wrote. Perhaps this explains why so many Republican senators, during confirmation hearings earlier this year, eagerly swallowed the lies and distortions of President Trump’s nominees for Cabinet and other high-level posts. But only now are we seeing just how badly they were played for suckers by the likes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Pete Hegseth, and others. “We need