This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. “I’ve been victimized by my own cuteness,” he says. “I like look back and think, ‘Wait, did I write that?’” he adds. “The fact that ‘This Town’ didn’t have an index was sort of just cute at the time, but ultimately it was a pain in the ass,” Leibovich says with a laugh. Olympic figure skating champion Sarah Hughes files to run for CongressĪl Sharpton to deliver Jordan Neely eulogy amid partisan battle over Marine charged in his slaying cliché of publicity-hungry social climbers just skimming the back of the book to find their names, “Thank You for Your Servitude” comes complete with a guide to everyone’s who’s in it. The big spoiler for Washington types might be that unlike “This Town,” which famously didn’t include an index to avoid the D.C. ‘We’re just waiting for him to die,’ he said,” Leibovich writes in his book. “A former Republican congressman told me recently that the party’s only real plan for dealing with Trump in 2024 involved a darkly divine intervention. Leibovich says that the 76-year-old ex-president’s grip on the Republican Party shows no sign of loosening. But I do think that the enablers have been sort of the underreported part of all of this.” And I’m not trying to psychoanalyze anyone.

“I’m not trying to find the ultimate intrigue. I’m not trying to out-Woodward Woodward,” he says, referring to acclaimed Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward.

“The pervasive theme here has just been absolute cowardice,” he says. “I think the gap between what people have said privately about Donald Trump and the absolute adulation for which they’ll talk about him publicly has never been bigger,” he says. “I think the less-understood part of the whole Trump story were all the people who made him possible, who all knew better, who all privately have many levels of contempt for him,” says Leibovich. “To sort of let do what he wants and live in complete fear of him,” he adds. throughout all these years has just been complete surrender,” says Leibovich, a former longtime New York Times Magazine correspondent. Ted Cruz (Texas) - “whom Trump drew to his side.” The Atlantic staff writer is detailing the mania that he says has enveloped Capitol Hill since Trump’s 2016 election win in his new book out this week, titled “Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission,” which focuses on what he calls the “slavishly devoted Republicans” - including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Sen.

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