Sledgehammers for you, pillows for me: the politics of selective morality in Tennessee

States Newsroom · October 30, 2026

There is something almost theological about watching a politician suddenly discover grace. State Sen. Brent Taylor, the Republican nominee for Tennessee’s newly redrawn 9th Congressional District, is now asking voters to extend him something he has rarely seemed eager to extend to the people he criticizes: mercy. The…

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