If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?

The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.

left behind a country that was more dynamic, more competitive, more tolerant, less deferential, less self-confident, less united, more socially equal, less economically equal, more expressive, more risk-averse, more sexual, less literate, less polite, less reticent.

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.