Welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, our new daily political product, featuring myself, Julia Ioffe, Tara Palmeri, and Peter Hamby. In today’s edition, a conversation with Teddy Schleifer about the 2024 political questions dotting the mega-donor landscape: Will DeSantis alienate the Silicon Valley bigwigs? Will MAGA buy Nikki Haley’s act? All that and more, below the fold.

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But in other ways, it really does feel like the political landscape has shifted beneath our feet. Corporate America is more plugged in than ever to social issues, as my Puck partner Bill Cohan noted today in his column about the proliferation of E.S.G. practices on Wall Street. That’s created an opening for...