And look, Ryan Lizza seems like a huge creep.

I am not on Team Lizza here.

But Olivia was cheating on her fiance with the famous presidential candidate (also a huge creep). And everyone in their peer network knew about it. And then the fiance, what, didn’t help her cover that shit up?

Come on.

I live in DC. You think “official Washington” didn’t care what Trump administration 2 was likely to do?

Talk to someone who works at NIH. Or State. Or CFPB. Or DOJ. They all knew what was at stake. They were all scared + furious.

And reporters like Nuzzi saw none of it because they didn’t care.

Nuzzi is the type of journalist who treats politics as offering entertaining characters, and zero stakes or substance.

She has had a remarkably successful career within that particular genre.

Her self-immolation, along with this vacuous memoir, illustrates the genre’s limits.

An entire section on his Wikipedia page is labeled “Allegations of grift, ethical misconduct, philandering, nepotism and cronyism.”

these people are fraudsters selling snake oil and after their reforms crash and burn they'll be on to the next institution to do the same song and dance