Sarah Longwell

Sarah Longwell is an American political consultant and publisher of news and opinion website The Bulwark. A former member of the Republican Party, she is the founder of the Republican Accountability Project and Republican Voters Against Trump, which spent millions of dollars to defeat then-President Donald Trump in 2020 and 2024. According to The New Yorker Longwell was dedicated to "fighting Trump's takeover of her party" during his first term. Since Trump's re-election, she has argued for defeating Republicans electorally to force the party to change from what she calls its authoritarian course. Longwell is a senior fellow at the Kettering Foundation, an American non-partisan research foundation. She is also the author of the book, How to Eat an Elephant, released on September 8, 2026. The book introduces "a grand unified theory of how to destroy Trump's Republican Party."