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My Father, My Faith, and Donald Trump - The Atlantic

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In The Atlantic’s January/February 2024 issue, 24 writers imagine what a second Trump term would look like. Here, in our house of worship, people were taunting me about politics as I tried to mourn. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. It was July 29, 2019—the worst day of my life, though I didn’t know that quite yet. The traffic in downtown Washington, D.C., was inching along. The mid-Atlantic humidity was sweating through the windows of my chauffeured car. I was running late and fighting to stay awake. For two weeks, I’d been sprinting between television and radio studios up and down the East Coast, promoting my new book on the collapse of the post–George W. Bush Republican Party and the ascent of Donald Trump. Now I had one final interview for the day. My publicist had offered to cancel—it wasn’t that important, she said—but I didn’t want to. It was important. After the car pulled over on M Street Northwest, I hustled into the sto

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 40:53 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here . It was July 29, 2019—the worst day of my life, though I didn’t know that quite yet. The traffic in downtown Washington, D.C., was inching along. The mid-Atlantic humidity was sweating through the windows of my chauffeured car. I was running late and fighting to stay awake. For two weeks, I’d been sprinting between television and radio studios up and down the East Coast, promoting my new book on the collapse of the post–George W. Bush Republican Party and the ascent of Don

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