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The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders

Seth Masket

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Daniel W. Drezner loved it
Masket provides an excellent, concise, data-driven explanation. Much of the data from repeated surveys of GOP local leaders, along with Masket’s on-the-ground field research in Iowa and New Hampshire. The sweat equity on display in the book is impressive.

on danieldrezner.substack.com · 18 Jun 2026

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.