Jacob Weisberg on the Contagion of Cowardice

To be good at politics, Yasha, is to be good at convincing yourself of the things that it's useful for you to believe. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Why is it that a lot of people seem to be very courageous in standing up to Donald Trump after he first won office in 2016? And why profiles in courage are much rarer to find? in 2024 and its aftermath?

How did certain personalities like Megan Kelly, who was a brave conservative dissenter from Donald Trump the first time around, turn themselves into big cheerleaders for the mugger movement the second time around? And does all of that actually matter? Is the degree to which People are courageous, a big predictor of political outcomes. Did that courage help to rein in Donald Trump in the first term?

And yet he was able to get re-elected? Did this lack of courage really hurt in the second term? But then why does it feel a little bit as though Donald Trump is finally on his way out of American politics? Less popular now than he has been at any point. in the last 10 years that he has participated in American politics.

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