Join Sarah Longwell, CEO and publisher of The Bulwark, for a timely conversation with political strategist and commentator David Axelrod about the state of American politics today. Centered around Longwell’s new book, How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time, she will share stories from her own unlikely journey from a lesbian Republican operative to the vanguard of the anti-MAGA movement. She’ll explain exactly how we got here and, more importantly, what we must build next to save America from authoritarianism.
Sarah Longwell is CEO and publisher of The Bulwark, one of the fastest-growing independent media companies in the country, with millions of subscribers across all platforms. She is also the host of The Focus Group podcast, in which listeners hear directly from voters in Sarah’s focus groups. She has decades of experience leading some of the nation’s highest-visibility targeted persuasion campaigns and is a nationally recognized leader in qualitative research. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her family and is a graduate of Kenyon College.
David Axelrod is a preeminent American political strategist and commentator, and the former chief strategist and senior advisor to President Barack Obama. Axelrod is the founding director of the University of Chicago's non-partisan Institute of Politics. He currently serves as a Distinguished Fellow at the University of Chicago, Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, and Chief Political Analyst for CNN. A former political writer for the Chicago Tribune, Axelrod produced media strategy and advertising for 150 campaigns across the U.S., culminating in President Obama’s historic elections. Axelrod is also the author of The New York Times bestselling memoir, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.
