What Can You Do If Trump Stages a Coup?

Plus: the Republican identity crisis after Trump, the unpredictable conservative voters of suburban Wisconsin, and a documentary about the Black public-affairs TV show “Soul!” View in browser | Update your preferences The Political Scene The Republican Identity Crisis After Trump This Presidency poses stark questions about the ideological future of both parties. By Nicholas Lemann News Desk What Can You Do If Trump Stages a Coup? When the President started warning that he might not concede the election in November if he loses, several citizens’ groups began planning for the worst. By Lizzie Widdicombe Campaign Chronicles Will Trump’s “Law and Order” Message Work in Wisconsin? The suburban counties outside of Milwaukee have been reliable Republican strongholds, but the region’s politics have become more complicated, and less predictable, under Trump. By Elisabeth Zerofsky Page-Turner The Lessons of Reading Every Book About Trump In “What Were We Thinking,” Carlos Lozada revisits all the Trump books that he’s read since 2015: about a hundred and fifty titles, each purporting to illuminate the man and his times. By Katy Waldman Fiction “Nettle” “He was no longer a child, scorched with sickness, a beloved. He was someone else, someone with no one.” By Joy Williams Culture from the New Yorker Cultural Comment When Public Television Had a Little “Soul!” Decades after it left the air, Ellis Haizlip’s public-affairs show remains a unique achievement in Black television. By Jordan Coley Postscript The Improbable Life of Helen Jones Woods Woods, who died, at ninety-six, of COVID-19, was a founding member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, a record-breaking, racially integrated, all-female swing band. By Megan Mayhew Bergman Humor and Puzzles Daily Shouts Some Pertinent Quotes from 2020 “I hope this audit finds you well.” —Max Smith, I.R.S. official By Matthew Osubor Crossword The Weekend Puzzle Queen Elizabeth has owned more than thirty of them: six letters. By Anna Shechtman This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To insure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.