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    ‘Watching for Discomfort’: Mark Leibovich on Reporting His New Trump Book

    A Q&amp;A with the author on the various ways the Republican subjects of his new book, <em>Thank You for Your Servitude</em>, revealed themselves
    by Gal Beckerman Jul 13, 2022 4 minutes
    Source: Getty; The Atlantic

    What distinguishes Mark Leibovich’s new about the Trump years from all the many, many others is that he started it with an unusual premise: He was bored with Trump. “I never found Donald Trump to be remotely captivating as a stand-alone figure,” Leibovich, a staff writer for , writes in . Far more interesting were those who stood next to Trump and enabled his rise—the Lindsey Grahams and Kevin McCarthys—those who should have known better. What made them tick? was a journalistic question with some mystery to it. I talked with Leibovich about the people he calls the “collaborators” and whether he has a grand “banality of evil” theory to explain their behavior. This conversation has been

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