Then there’s Cory Booker, the amiable man of the upper house, a moderate willing to cross partisan frontiers and do things like award the Congressional Gold Medal to participants of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery with his good colleague Jeff Sessions.

And there’s also Cory Booker, the first senator in history to testify against another sitting senator for a cabinet position, accusing his good colleague Jeff Sessions of abetting institutional racism.

Or look, there’s Cory Booker, genteel champion of feminism. Which is not, it seems, the same Cory Booker, consumed by self-described “seething anger” who playacts a raging maniac, demeaning DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for 10 straight minutes over something the woman never even said.