Tim Alberta
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Tim Alberta is a journalist known for his insightful analysis of American politics and culture. This interview reveals his ability to navigate complex political landscapes while fostering dialogue across divides, highlighting his role as a mediator in contemporary political discourse.
“Yeah, you know, it's pretty interesting what happened was in the fall of, well, late summer of 2015, I had transitioned off the hill pretty recently and I was assigned to cover the 2016 presidential campaign and I was given a nice raise and was writing for National Journal Magazine quite a bit.”
“I think kids have a way of doing that, and particularly kids who have to face great adversity and great challenges of their own. And the one thing kids don't do, David, they don't feel bad for themselves.”
“Those smaller rooms, right? And it was an incredibly fortuitous time to be taking that approach because the rank and file, all of these freshman lawmakers who had come in to Congress in 2010, they were trying to burn the building down.”
“You know, I think about that a lot. It's interesting, David. And in fact, we can come back full circle to this, but I was just having conversation the other day with my new editor at the Atlantic about sort of my family and how really it wasn't until my dad's death that I met most of his family because there was sort of a breakage in the…”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 433 — Tim Alberta
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