As John Nichols reports this week, Trump hasn’t been particularly persuasive to people outside the courtroom, either—especially to members of the Libertarian Party, a group of techies and crypto heads whom Trump, for some reason, thought he could win over. Standing in front of a room full of them at the Washington Hilton this week, Trump was met with “boos,” “shouts of ‘hypocrite,’ and a sign that declared, ‘No wannabe dictators.’” As Nichols suggests, Trump’s appeals to libertarians have been inconsistent and insincere, and he is unlikely to gain their support—now or in November.

The 2024 election here in the US is at the front of most of our minds, but countries all over the world are entering their own contests. Mexico, for example, is poised to elect its first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, this weekend. (Arturo Cano profiled her for our April issue.) Meanwhile, in the UK, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called an election for July 4—a decision that has all the hallmarks of desperation. Steve Howell writes that while Keir Starmer’s Labour party maintains a massive polling lead, it won’t be sailing in entirely smooth waters. He predicts that many voters on the left will follow their convictions and vote Green or independent rather than settle for the lesser evil, a Labour party that endorsed fiscal conservatism.

-Alana Pockros

Engagement Editor, The Nation

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