Before he held forth on Donald Trump, free trade and his own growing alienation from the political party he once helped run, Marc Short stopped to make a critical announcement.
He brought Chick-fil-A for the whole class.
Short, former chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence, arrived last week to a Georgetown University classroom to lead a discussion for the eighth and final time, mostly about how the Republican Party had changed — and was continuing to change — under Trump. Like any true-blue Republican, he had turned to the conservative-friendly fast-food restaurant to feed the roughly dozen students seated before him.