In case you missed it, George Conway joined Andrew Egger and Catherine Rampell for an emergency livestream from the Kennedy Center last night.
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We also have an excerpt from Sarah Longwell’s newly released bestseller, lessons from a fractured elbow, and a look at why the Iran war is moving too fast for Washington.
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Did you miss Sonny Bunch and Mona Charen discuss ‘The Odyssey’?
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Did the movie live up to the hype?
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October Bulwark Book Club pick: Jon Grinspan’s The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915.
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It was nice to travel to the corners of our fine land to see so many Bulwark folks excited for Sarah Longwell’s book tour!
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You can check out some of the pictures from each in the members-only chat.
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But here’s my favorite one: Hundreds of folks holding up Sarah’s book:
Dayton, here we come…
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The next installment of this newsletter will come after our first ever show in the Buckeye state.
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We’re raising money for a great cause, the Haitian Support Center.
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If you can’t make it, you can still donate.
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It’s important in times like these, we stand together.
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Jon L. Kyl, 1942-2026
Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl was one of the bosses who formed me.
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I worked for him for several years in the late 2000s.
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If you’ve read Sarah’s book, Jon Kyl was basically my Rick Berman.
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He died Wednesday night after a bout with dementia, joining that big cloakroom in the sky.
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His influence on me is a big reason you’re reading this remembrance now.
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He taught me how to comport myself in a debate; how to argue, research, and use logic and rhetoric; how to care about principles while still building consensus; and an entire style of writing we called “Kyl Style.”
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The ethos of that office remains drilled into my head.
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But really, he made me truly appreciate politics for the good reasons.
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Kyl Style still shapes how I write, whether it’s a story or an email to our members.
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Make letters conversational, but don’t be insincere.
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I struggle with that last one.
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But those principles are the foundation for nearly everything I do.
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Starting fights, unfortunately, sometimes comes with the territory these days.
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Kyl Style is also a very lawyerly style, or so I’ve been told.
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For me, working for Jon Kyl at the height of his career was like playing for the ’97 Indians.
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The roster was loaded.
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The staff was respected, talented, and operating at a very high level.
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And in the legislative win-loss column, we repeatedly came close to breaking through without quite closing the biggest deal.
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These days, I catch myself wondering how the world might have been different if the 2007 immigration compromise Kyl helped negotiate had become law.
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Would we be holding a show in Dayton to raise money for Springfield and its Haitian community?
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Would Donald Trump have become president if immigration had been taken off the table?
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Would the compromise have worked?
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Reality snaps back pretty quickly.
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They don’t make senators like that, at least on the right, anymore.
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You love to see it, folks…
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I’m excited for playoff baseball, and, yes, we will have our regular Overtime World Series prediction bracket!
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