The Sweep: A Taste of 2024 Strategy

A (satirical) peek behind the presidential positioning curtain.

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Chris Stirewalt, the erstwhile politics editor for Fox News and friend of this newsletter, has had some free time on his hands of late. And I asked whether he would want to share some of his insights with you all, dear readers. We talked deadlines and topics that might interest y’all. But then, last night, Chris happened to email me exactly the type of juicy 2024 strategy memo that Sweep aficionados will appreciate.

Of course, after reading it, I reached out to Governor Wormwood’s campaign for comment about this leaked strategy memo, but they referred me to their communications consultant at Screwtape Enterprises, who replied that “the safest road to reforming the Republican Party is a gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

But even so, I think you’ll find—as I did—that it’s filled with some interesting observations (about alpacas?) and predictions (also about alpacas?). And from what I hear, Chris may be able to get his hands on even more of these nuggets in the coming weeks and months. 

But before we get to that …

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  1. linda

    Add my name to the list. Stirewalt, please. If it means a couple of extra bucks a month it is well worth it. The dude is a gem. Take me home, country roads.......

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    Sad Trombone

    I was referred here by a commenter at the Morning Dispatch and after reading these comments, boy, do stampeding lemmings think alike. #HireStirewalt!!!
    As to the pivot counties, I don't think there is any conundrum that's really that hard to figure out - if the ticket had been Biden/Klobuchar Dems would have defeated Trump handily. Instead they nominated a man obviously on the precipice of severe cognitive issues and put on deck a Berkeley radical, a racial grievance mongering fanatic that sent bail money to looters and arsonists. Even I had to think twice before voting for Biden, and I make George Conway sound like Lou Dobbs when I get on a rant about Trump.

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  3. Sally Tilden

    Please hire Chris Stirewalt. Let us hear more from him.

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    Jim Ost

    Give Stirewalt a contract IMMEDIATELY

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  5. Susan Williams

    Long time reader but first time commenter :-) Please more Stirewalt at The Dispatch from a fellow Ohio valley native!!

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  6. Sullyz

    Sarah - Love your work! Not to Stirewalt this, but the appearance of an actual Stirewalt has brightened my day.

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    Ben Connelly

    This is awesome.

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  8. Meg

    Wow! Your play on the Screwtape Letters was amazing. You really did a nice job of writing it like C.S. Lewis did. An absolutely incredible wedding of the Screwtape Letters with the politics of the Republican Party. I love The Dispatch so much.

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  9. Foghorn Leghorn

    "[The political theatre] has been occupied by Noise–Noise, the grand dynamism, the audible expression of all that is exultant, ruthless, and virile–Noise which alone defends us from silly qualms, despairing scruples and impossible desires. We will make the whole universe a noise in the end….The melodies and silences of Heaven will be shouted down in the end."

    (consults history of American politics since 1988)

    This checks out.

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    Jeffrey M Ricketts

    I too have dumped Fox new and have been holding my breath until Stirewalt reappeared. If I didn’t already subscribe to the Dispatch I would now just for being able to laugh out loud at his scalpel sharp satire. Please continue to give him an outlet.

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