But this was not Trumpworld, even if many of the people in the room saw Trump as a useful tool.
No one cheered or even seemed interested. “ ‘This is what the people at The Washington Post think we’re doing.’ Well, this is exactly what the people at The Washington Post think we’re doing.”Ī portly guy running for Congress in Georgia made his way to the front of the room to give a speech heavy on MAGA buzzwords and florid expressions of fealty to Donald Trump. The room was pitifully quiet, lit in strip-club red, and the sparse crowd was almost entirely male, with a cash bar off in the corner that seemed unable to produce drinks fast enough to buoy the mood. “Oh, fuck,” she said as we walked into a small ballroom where the party was already underway.
