Geoffrey Kabaservice (@RuleandRuin) is a historian of the Republican Party and the Director of Political Studies at the Niskanen Center and the author of a number of books, including Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party.

Jeet Heer (@heerjeet) is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also writes the monthly column Morbid Symptoms. He is the author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles. His latest piece in the Nation is Trump’s Indictment Will Dominate the 2024 Election: The GOP’s defense of the former president means the election will be a referendum on the rule of law.