The End of the G.O.P. As We Know It?

Pre-gaming the nerve-wracking, existentially terrifying, down-to-the-wire Trump vs. Harris showdown on November 5 with The New York Times’s Peter Baker and The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser.

We’ve been living for eight years with the seductive and clearly incorrect fallacy that there’s going to be this kind of snapback moment and we’re just sort of waiting for the jailbreak, or Trump’s defeat, and then Republicans are going to return to the status quo. Photo: Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

John Heilemann

October 17, 2024

There’s a little less than three weeks until Election Day, which means that Democratic bedwetting is well underway. To parse the latest talking points (or lack thereof) consuming the political class, I dragooned one of the great power couples working in political journalism—Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker—to join me on a recent episode of Impolitic With John Heilemann.