EH S5 E16: special "so much going on" edition
Trump Asks FIFA Boss To Overturn Iran War 88888888888888888 excerpt from Jay Kuo's Substack post regarding Lindsay Graham Other astute political observers agreed. Steve Schmidt, a former Republican strategist who ran John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, delivered a devastating assessment in Rolling Stone that’s worth reading in its entirety : People try to analyze Lindsey through the prism of the manifest inconsistencies that exist between things that he used to believe and what he’s doing now,” Schmidt says. “The way to understand him is to look at what’s consistent. And essentially what he is in American politics is what, in the aquatic world, would be a pilot fish: a smaller fish that hovers about a larger predator, like a shark, living off of its detritus. That’s Lindsey. And when he swam around the McCain shark, broadly viewed as a virtuous and good shark, Lindsey took on the patina of virtue. But wherever the apex shark is, you find the Lindsey fish hovering abou...