Jon Favreau wrote some of the greatest speeches of the Obama presidency. Today, with a runaway political podcast, he says he is grateful that Trump has inspired a grassroots Democratic revival
By many measures, Jon Favreau ought to be a vision of despair, holding his head in an Edvard Munch scream of angst at a world turned upside down.
He was the future once, a twentysomething White House wunderkind who wrote speeches for President Obama that laid out bold, confident visions of progress on race, inequality, poverty and the environment. Time magazine named Favreau one of the world’s most influential people in 2009. People magazine named him one of the world’s most beautiful. Cerebral, handsome, feted by the liberal establishment: it seemed a gilded existence – and then Donald Trump became president and set about destroying everything Obama and Favreau and their team had worked for, chipping the great liberal dream to rubble amid cheers from Republicans who now dominate executive, legislative and judicial power in the US.
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