Ian Ward

For @POLITICOMag, I wrote about Pastor Doug Wilson, whose vision of a conservative Christian theocracy is finding a receptive audience in Trump's Washington.

I’ve compared Ross Perot and Elon Musk, but I’m a little skeptical Musk will be able to copy Perot’s “successes”. Me for politico: politico.com/news/magazine/…

Some context on Wilson and Christ Church, which opened a plant in DC this weekend: politico.com/news/magazine/…

“Instead of neatly dividing Trump world into two opposing and mutually antagonistic camps, the debate has fractured the right into a kaleidoscopic mélange of competing factions,” @ianwardreports writes on the Epstein case and MAGA: politico.com/news/magazine/…

the global enfrittata

The bill looks like a triumph of GOP sclerosis + dysfunction over attempts to remake its agenda along coherent populist (Vance) or dynamist (Musk) lines, which is why the VP is implausibly casting its details as so much "minutiae" and Musk is screaming from the sidelines.

Inside the MAGA plan to rebuild Penn Station, by @ianwardreports politico.com/news/magazine/…

The MAGA-backed plan to make Penn Station beautiful again ow.ly/MvBn50WaOee

After penning an anonymous New York Times op-ed in 2018, Miles Taylor became the target of a Trump executive order accusing him of treason. Taylor spoke to us about his experience in a Q&A 👇 politico.com/news/magazine/…

Kudos to Politico for this piece on Doug Wilson: good old-fashioned journalism—not a hit piece but trying to be fair, to understand, doing the reading in advance, and going onsite to talk to the players. politico.com/news/magazine/…

Seems like a pretty fair profile of @douglaswils. Major takeaway is Sabbath Dinners are awesome and all families should strive to create the beautiful ritual described by @ianwardreports. politico.com/news/magazine/…

Insightful longform article at @politico on the New Right's Favorite Pastor (@douglaswils). politico.com/news/magazine/…