David Hoppe ‘Leaning into the Storm’ as Speaker Ryan’s Top Aide
One day in 1989, David Hoppe explained to an audience how to pull the levers on Capitol Hill. His rising-star conservative credentials were impeccable, his advice was blunt and his description of the denizens of Congress was painful.
“First, people do not read,” Hoppe said of staff and lawmakers. “They review things very quickly, scan things … Second, they do not think. Nobody thinks in Washington. They react. They have a problem and they react to it.”
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