Alex Wagner is the host of Runaway Country and the author of The Steal Four Right-Wing Hard-Liners, One Republican Presidency, and the Raid on America's Courts Alex Wagner talks the Republican “midterm convention” in Dallas that became focused on Trump, with speakers describing him as increasingly unhinged, dependent on audience approval, and surrounded by officials and allies too afraid to challenge him. It also highlights J.D. Vance’s political positioning, the underwhelming performances of Trump’s handpicked cabinet figures like RFK Jr. and Scott Bessent, and the troubling influence of Natalie Harp as a gatekeeper to Trump. The conversation then shifts to a book about how a long-running conservative project reshaped the Supreme Court and American law through figures like Ed Meese, Paul Weyrich, Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, and others, arguing that the current court is the product of decades of deliberate strategy. Finally, it warns about a looming court decision on mail-in ballots and says the court has already helped undermine confidence in elections, regardless of how it rules. Subscribe to Fast Politics and listen 4x a week for interviews just like this on your favorite podcast app: https://episodes.fm/1645614328