Out next week: Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind by Robert Draper.
Playbook: “Draper also reports on the history of the McCarthy-Trump relationship, including McCarthy’s youthful fascination with Trump — long before he ever knew the future president.”
“Back in 2011, Draper interviewed a friend of McCarthy from his hometown Bakersfield, Calif., who told Draper, ‘One person that he always talked about back then was Donald Trump. He talked about him all the time. I don’t recall if he met him, but he talked about him a lot in our early twenties.’”
