A few minutes before the sharp pop-pop-pop of the would-be assassin’s bullets rang out in Butler, Pennsylvania, at 6:12 p.m. on Saturday, I had just finished my second reading of Tim Alberta’s much-discussed magnum opus in The Atlantic on Donald Trump’s campaign. When it comes to the G.O.P. and the right more broadly, there’s no long-form journalist in the business better than Alberta, whose work is, as a rule, deeply reported, beautifully written, and perfectly timed. And this new piece is no exception. It features the Trump campaign’s co-managers, Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, boasting about the historic drubbing they believe they have in store for Joe Biden, while at the same time “privately praying” he doesn’t make way for a new nominee and thereby compel them to undertake a “dramatic reset.”