With his abortive campaign for governor, Madel joins politicians as disparate as Mitt Romney and Marjorie Taylor Greene. What they have in common is less an ideology than a breaking point, after which they can no longer say things they don’t believe, or make themselves believe the things they have to say. To triumph in conservative politics, you need to either exist in lock step with Donald Trump or wrench your soul into alignment with your ambition. You need, in most cases, to be comfortable with a high degree of bad faith.