McKay Coppins
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
McKay Coppins is a prominent journalist known for his incisive reporting on political dynamics, particularly within the Republican Party. This interview reveals his ability to cut through the noise of political discourse, focusing on the underlying shifts and strategies that shape contemporary politics.
“Definitely. So, yeah, the book when I set out to write it was not supposed to really be a campaign book. That was kind of the publisher's way to sell it later. But the idea was to examine the kind of fracturing of the Republican Party that was happening in the wake of 2012.”
“But while we were on, so he gave the speech, we were on the way to the plane, and right before we got on the plane, he gets a call from his pilot saying that there's a snowstorm in New York City. LaGuardia is shut down. We can't go there.”
“I just don't see it happening. I mean, look, if Trump exited, he ended his term early somehow and Pence became president, that would be one thing. But, you know, Pence has never been an obvious champion of Trumpism, right? Trump's base likes him because he's so loyal to Trump or seems so loyal to Trump.”
“Yeah, and that was something I actually related to a lot because I grew up Mormon in Massachusetts. I think it was me in like three other Mormons in our high school, you know. It was a very small group of us and not well known. And I understood the instinct to downplay it because people thought it was weird, you know.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 212 - McKay Coppins
LISTEN AT THE SOURCE ↗THE RECORD IS CHECKABLE