Patrick Ruffini

Coming November 4: The paperback edition of Party of the People, with a new epilogue on the 2024 election.

un italiano che tifa per la Francia è come una carbonara con la panna: esiste, ma non dovrebbe

I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when this came out

The sponsorship list is a time capsule

Hello again. We’re currently in Clemson, South Carolina. I’ve decided to come back here to document the final part of our road trip. The main reason I deactivated my account two weeks ago was that things became increasingly toxic. For some people, it’s unfortunately unfathomable that a good story can exist without some kind of hidden agenda behind it. There was even a Reddit group going through my entire account trying to find anything they could use to reveal my identity. I know this was only a small percentage of people, but after a while it became exhausting. During the last two weeks, I received so many kind messages on Instagram, and they really made me realize how many people genuinely enjoyed following the trip. Some people even told me that their grandparents regularly ask them, “What are the Germans up to today?” I think that’s really cool. I decided to continue because I realized that the overwhelming majority of people loved following along. A small group of very loud people shouldn’t be able to ruin something that brought so many others joy. I also want to clear something up, as people who follow me on Instagram already know. I’ve been to the United States before. This is not my first visit, and I’ve never claimed that it was. The last time I was here was in January 2022, when I visited New York and Philadelphia. A lot of people shared my Raising Cane’s post from November 2025 to make it look like I was secretly American. That post wasn’t from the United States, it was from my trip to Saudi Arabia. This is my first time back in the U.S. in more than four years, and apart from Boston, I’d never visited any of the places we’ve been to on this trip before. That’s probably why many people assumed it was our first time in America, because for all of these places, it actually was. And let me tell you, Ohio and Alabama are very different from New York City or Los Angeles. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Thanks for reading.

Predicting 225D-210R House and 51R-49D Senate — plus a path to an AOC nomination in 2028 that runs through MI-SEN. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Single-handedly creating an organic fan base for Man City

Really odd that the test of moral depravity is working with the incumbent president of your party. This is literally the most normal thing in politics!

Alan Keyes was a replacement nominee in two different states sixteen years apart

Just a brilliant operator

It’s happening

Certainly a savvier political operator than the neocons who abandoned the party for aesthetic reasons only to watch Biden do Afghanistan and hem and haw on Israel while Trump achieves their lifelong objectives in Venezuela and Iran

Not only are the people criticizing @LindseyGrahamSC this morning ghouls, but he was absolutely 100% correct on foreign policy.

At least they used a good photo of me. Judge me by my enemies.

One of a kind.

What if instead of singing Wonderwall they sang You’ll Be Back

Historically, the 90th minute is the ripest scoring opportunity

When World Cup goals get scored, minute by minute, from 1990 to 2026. claude.ai/public/artifac…

Every country still in the World Cup

It's Graceland. That's the entire vibe of Trump. It's part of why his wealth isn't offputting to working class voters. He spent it the way my Italian grandmother would have spent it if she got a billion dollars.

The obvious reason we haven’t invested in this is that there’s a widely available third option that costs about $40 worth of gas.