"He responded that he didn’t regret his vote, because his vote was about more than his farm or tariffs; it was about God, guns, and abortion. In sum, he’d take the hit because there were bigger issues at stake.
That conversation is part of my first book, God Land, published in 2019. But I think about it often, because it highlights so many of the problems with political reporting. It’s not about the policies; it’s about the priorities."