Grassley’s Glory Diminished

Unlike Cicero, the 90-year-old U.S. senator has chosen popularity over “doing what is right.”

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley speaking in Ames, Iowa, Aug. 13, 2011 (credit: Gage Skidmore).

By Michael Judge

Of all the folksy things Chuck Grassley has said in his 43 years as a U.S. Senator from Iowa, the one that will likely define him was spoken alongside Donald Trump in October 2021 among hundreds of ecstatic Iowans, many holding “Save America” placards,…