was a classic high-end Washington power move. Fire everyone. Force people to reapply for their jobs. Those who remain know to whom they owe their allegiance. And use the new openings to bring in loyalists. That Mook wanted to burn down the DCCC and rebuild it in his image wasn’t a unique instinct. That he was playing Beltway power games this astutely so soon in life marked him as a much higher-level operative than the vast majority of his contemporaries—and most party elders, for that matter. By early 2014, when
