“Barack Obama was a writer before he became a politician, and he saw his Presidency as a struggle over narrative.”George Packer
“More than any modern President, Barack Obama had a keen sense of the limits of American power—and of his own.”George Packer
“The beginning of the end of Trump’s presidency arrived on March 11, 2020, when he addressed the nation for the first time on the subject of the pandemic and showed himself to be completely out of his depth. The virus was a fact that Trump couldn’t lie into oblivion or forge into a political weapon—it was too personal and frightening, too real.”George Packer A Political Obituary for Donald Trump (2020)