Perhaps the defining feature of Trump’s 2016 campaign, and certainly the pre-Covid years of his presidency, was that he’d amassed a decidedly anti-Goodwinian team of rivals: various members of his inner circle all hated one another, leaked their grievances to the press, and ratted out their enemies to enterprising reporters around town. After the buttoned-up Obama years, Washington journalists were suddenly flooded by epic tales of backstabbing and political interventions and palace intrigues: Steve Bannon fighting Reince Priebus; the machinations of Ivanka and Jared; the shocking Oval Office clashes between the president and the dozens of top officials he hired and fired, often in humiliating fashion, and so forth.