The Social Influencer

Taped to the refrigerator in the house Jeff Flake grew up in was a three-by-five-inch card smeared with baking residue. As described in his 2017 book, Conscience of a Conservative, the card read, “Assume the best. Look for the good.” Smiling, the Arizona senator says, “I wish everyone lived by that, but the best I can do is to try and live it myself.”