On a drizzly afternoon last week in the cozy basement of a Capitol Hill rowhouse, Steve Bannon sat back in his chair, blinked, and sighed. “That was a big win,” he said.
Matt Gaetz, the former Florida congressman, had just a day earlier withdrawn his nomination as attorney general. Bannon blinked again, as if to check one more time that he had not been dreaming and that it had really happened.
Michael Warren is a politics editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was an on-air reporter at CNN and a senior writer at the Weekly Standard. When Mike is not reporting, writing, editing, and podcasting, he is probably spending time with his wife and three sons.
