It's Been a Minute

How will Gen Z independents shape the midterms? | It's Been a Minute

People are complicated and we've been boxed in by the political culture to think that you have to do politics with a consistent set of ideological positions and that you have to do politics via a political party. And yet, there's nothing in the US Constitution about political parties. In fact, George Washington warned about the spirit of the parties because he believed that it would be corrupting of the republic.

Book of the Day

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox on why he’s the 'worst possible spokesperson' for his own book

Too many Americans have lost close personal friends, have lost family members to politics where they don't talk to each other anymore. And that number is exploding. And it's incredibly unhealthy. It's bad for our country. It's bad for our souls.

Pivot

Kara Swisher: Elon Musk Is “Losing It On The Stand” | Pivot

The dehumanization, the delegitimization, the exclusion, the criminalization, the existential threat framing. No individual in public office has done more of this in the world than Donald Trump.

Code Switch

How your vote became your identity

What's happened in the US over the last many decades is that these really important identities like racial and religious identities have become associated in our minds with our party identity. So when we go vote in an election, we're not just feeling like our party wins or loses, we're feeling like our party and our racial group and our religious group and all these big parts of what makes us who we are, all of those things get wrapped up in the outcome of the election also.

Pivot

Pollster: Trump's Approval Ratings At "Five-Alarm Fire" Level | Pivot

The MAGA movement is about a quarter to a third depending on I mean it's a it's a pretty fluid section of the Republican party, but it's not half the country.

The New York Times

Turning Point USA Clubs Expand to High Schools Across America

If we don't talk, we'll never get to get outside of our echo chambers. And Charlie Kirk always said, when we stop talking, that's when violence happens.

Semafor

Blackrock Infrastructure Summit: Federal Priorities | Semafor Media Partner

Fights sell ratings. And so you see that, I think, on the media oftentimes. Talking heads are on radio. But the reality is the collegiality that exists between members.