This week’s Ruminant is dedicated to the devoted gnostic scholars of “Trumpism,” the Holy Grail of embattled conservative intellectuals and political toadies alike. Jonah also addresses the new elephant in the room: Project 2025 (consider our fact check on the discourse as mandatory reading). Blame the early hour, but Jonah also finds himself regressing to his days of media criticism, and even doubles down with media criticism-criticism. For dessert, he responds to comments on his debate with Niall Ferguson.

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—Eliana Johnson: “Meet the Harvard whiz kid who wants to explain Trumpism”

—The Dispatch fact-checks Project 2025

—Wednesday’s G-File

—Jonah debates Niall Ferguson on The Remnant: Is America a late-stage Soviet country?

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