The prescient final scene of the 1978 movie National Lampoon’s Animal House informs viewers that “Bluto” Blutarsky (John Belushi), the peeping Tom, acoustic guitar enemy, and master of the food fight who proudly carried a grade point average of “zero . . . point . . . zero,” would eventually go on to become a U.S. senator. And yet Bluto’s academic rigor might surpass that of the senators of 2026.
Last week, 39-year-old Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia gave a speech in which he decried the amount of money in politics.
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