Jason Zengerle

Oct 24, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jason Zengerle

In 2022, shortly before the midterm elections and the unofficial start of the 2024 presidential campaign, the conservative activist Christopher Rufo traveled to Maine to appear on Tucker Carlson's Fox Nation streaming talk show. For the previous two years, he was a frequent guest of Mr. Carlson's. He usually did his hits - on the evils of critical race theory, or the plague of "trans indoctrination" - from his home outside Seattle. This time, he was excited to meet Mr. Carlson in person.

Jun 30, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jason Zengerle

Late last year, Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a first-term Democrat from a rural district in Washington State, began receiving a deluge of alarmed texts from her friends. Before she was elected to Congress, in 2022, Gluesenkamp Perez ran an auto-repair shop with her husband; her professional and personal acquaintances still largely consist of people who work in the trades - construction, carpentry, woodworking.

May 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jason Zengerle

The video shows Donald Trump standing at a gilded lectern in Mar-a-Lago. It's December, a week or so before Christmas, and the former president is addressing a group of donors. "You are all people that have a lot of money!" Trump tells them. "I know 20 of you, and you're rich as hell!" As the deep-pocketed crowd whoops and laughs, Trump presses on, asking them to "quadruple" whatever they originally intended to give. Eventually, he arrives at the quo for their quid.

Apr 29, 2023 | news247planet.com | Jason Zengerle

Apr 28, 2023 | nytimes.com | Jason Zengerle