Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) on Tuesday reflected on his mix-up during former special counsel Jack Smith’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying his job “is to ask questions.”
Your job is to ask questions like an educated, informed adult and not like a god damn idiot edgelord middle schooler.
He’s pretty much right that his job is to ask questions, specifically his job is to ask questions that imply the answer that gets him votes for elections. It’s one of the issues of democracy (which I largely prefer to most alternatives). His job isn’t to do the best thing possible. It’s to get re-elected. It doesn’t matter that his question was incredibly stupid because his potential voters will mostly only see the part of him asking the question, not the followup that made him look really incompetent.