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The case is yet another example of Carr’s dramatic transformation from a low-key communications policy wonk into one of Trump’s staunchest cultural warriors.

Facts are great when you’re a lawyer in court or when you’re a wonk writing policy briefs and refining legislative language.

Are they academics, scholars and scientists, or do they also include those of less elevated standing — technocrats, policy wonks, apparatchiks, pundits, journalists — who command a sizable public audience?

“Am I a policy wonk? No, but I do approach this from a very business-minded, fiscally conservative perspective.”

The media will, no doubt, lean into Walz’s experience as a football coach — in 1999 he helped Mankato West win a state championship and political wonks love a good sports metaphor.