An author on what he learned while co-writing ‘The Last Election’ with Andrew Yang.
In the end, Donald Trump’s most enduring contribution to American life will probably be making assaults on the press central to Republican politics. Even fellow party members who are at least somewhat uncomfortable with his sexual and treasonous tendencies have enthusiastically taken up his strategy of threatening journalists. Florida Gov.
I had my reasons, as collaborators always do. Andrew came to me with the idea of describing, in detail, what the process of the collapse of the American electoral system might look like. He knew a great deal that I didn’t, and what he knew mattered.
There were frank answers to obvious questions, like how sex works on a campaign trail. But I became fascinated in particular with the human details that tend to be lost in even the closest campaign reporting. Before debates, candidates are given scraps of paper on which they’re allowed to write notes. They tend to use the triangle method; they write down twenty-second long arguments on each side so that, no matter what question is asked, they can hit all their talking points on the subject.
I can only aspire. I betrayed nobody in writing “The Last Election.” It’s Andrew’s book as much as it’s mine. And the lack of betrayal makes me feel oddly guilty. Government and media are thesis and antithesis, and the idea is that the synthesis will be superior to either side on its own. Insofar as any principle is sacred to me, it is this.
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