You can’t appreciate the ordeal—and the heroism—of Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke on May 25 if you know nothing about Roland Freisler. Not that O’Rourke and Freisler have anything in common. O’Rourke, 49, represented the Texas 16th Congressional district from 2013 to 2019. A Democrat, he ran for the United States Senate in 2018 and for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. He is now the Democratic nominee for the 2022 Texas governorship. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0> ;, via Wikimedia Commons Freisler (October 30, 1893 – February 3, 1945) was a German Nazi jurist, judge...