votes to make sure the cult leader is not returned to a position where he can really do damage to the country. what explains elected republicans like mitch mcconnell saying he d vote for him again? people that like their jobs better than the alternative. they don t love the idea of being a cabinet sales liz cheney, a novelist, unemployed. there are people, quality public servants, democrats and republicans ought to be people prepared to lose their jobs where the job is rented not owned, and we have a lot of people in government on the republican side who have compromised everything in order to keep a job, and that s sad but that s just the reality. i wrote three novels after working on the palin campaign because politics became deeply disillusioning to me. what drove you to a creative process? i wasn t going to do it. i resisted the idea, and the editor of my second nonfiction book said, hey, have you