Welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, Real ‘Murica edition. This is Tina Nguyen, still recovering from a dangerous safari into the swamp, a.k.a. WHCD weekend. (My bones still hurt, though spotting a Property Brother in the wild made up for it. I’m pretty sure it was Drew Scott.)

This week: notes from the Tucker Bunker, a surprising new discipline in Mar-a-Lago, and Kevin McCarthy’s MAGA turnaround. Plus, my peerless colleague Teddy Schleifer on the latest Biden campaign and Peter Thiel fundraising gossip. (You can subscribe to his private email, The Stratosphere, here.)

But first…

• The Tucker Oppo Sitch: So far, Tucker Carlson has been relatively silent since Fox News forcibly removed him from his anchor chair, releasing just one video last week hinting at his censorship by the media elite and future revenge tour to come. Behind the scenes, his team told me last week, he was...