“This time around, he's not going to bother with the adults in the room. He's not going to get the well-credentialed Republicans… He's going to focus on people who are absolutely obedient to him.”

McKay Coppins on the dangers of a potential second Trump term.

So happy I went with The Atlantic. It was that or take 150k from the Enquirer to kill it.

Honestly, congratulations on staying at a Marriott for the first time in your entire life.

My long-in-the-works profile of Albert Brooks. I hope you'll read it: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Incredible moment, via Ben Smith: semafor.com/newsletter/04/…

Excited to participate in this discussion with McKay Coppins about his recent book on Senator Romney. Join us at Gaithersburg Book Festival

Here are a few things that Donald Trump’s lawyer says a president ought to be immune from prosecution for doing:
-selling nuclear secrets
-employing the U.S. military to assassinate a political rival
-launching a coup

Read David A. Graham: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Incredibly disturbing footage out of Texas where authorities appear to be barring any pro-Palestinian protest at all in open outdoor areas of campus — not just disruptive ones. This appears to be a blatant violation not just of the First Amendment but S.B. 18 which requires these…

This is a feature of every presidential cycle, but because the stakes feel so much higher in the Trump era, the biweekly panic attacks on one side or the other are more... acute. (How many voters are following closely enough to clock each narrative shift is a separate question.)

An unexpected pleasure of writing Mitt Romney’s biography was that at least once or twice per meeting he said something like this and I’d end up making roughly the same face as the CNN anchors at the end of this clip.

Partisanship of Latter-day Saints, by age:

60 year olds:
Republican - 70%
Democrat - 20%

40 year olds:
Republican - 60%
Democrat - 30%

20 year olds:
Republican - 50%
Democrat - 35%

“Friends still get a kick out of a story about how Johnson once told Trump that he was praying for him, to which the then-president responded: ‘Thank you, Mike. Tell God I said hi.’” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Here’s Michael Powell’s dispatch from Columbia:

“What I witnessed seemed less likely to persuade than to give collective voice to righteous anger. A genuine sympathy for the suffering of Gazans mixed with a fervor…that could border on the oppressive.”

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