
Final week I went right down to Washington to talk to Hakeem Jeffries, the Home minority chief, after he gave a speech marking Donald Trump’s calamitous first 100 days in workplace. At a time when many Democrats really feel leaderless, Jeffries, normally a relentlessly on-message inside operator, had been stepping additional into the general public eye. Not lengthy earlier than we spoke, he’d appeared on a reside taping of the "Raging Moderates" podcast in Manhattan; it was, he stated, most likely the 18th or nineteenth podcast he’d achieved since February. On April 27, he spent greater than 12 hours holding a live-streamed sit-in on the Capitol…