Aaron Renn was in a good mood. And that was fair: It’s not every day that you get labeled the No. 1 “intellectual super influencer” for a major swath of the Trump-era right.
“It’s always good to have some independent validation of your work,” he told me.
Maria Baer, Brad Wilcox, Deseret News
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