The Free Press

It’s not because we told you what to think. It’s because we did the basic job of journalism: We held up a mirror to reality.

No one could have predicted the exact shape of last night. But by and large, Free Press subscribers weren’t shocked by the results.

That’s not because we told you what to think. It’s because we did the basic job of journalism: We held up a mirror to reality.

Free Press readers saw last night coming because our Peter Savodnik traveled the country to meet the politically homeless Americans in “The Great Scramble.” And to Flint, Michigan, and to East Palestine, Ohio, to meet those who were used as political symbols—only to be abandoned by those who claimed to champion them.