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The Washington Roundtable: Mark Meadows, Donald Trump\\u2019s former right-hand man, took the stand in Georgia this week to argue that his actions in the election-racketeering case\\u2014in which he was indicted two weeks ago, alongside eighteen co-conspirators, including Trump\\u2014were taken in his capacity as a federal official. For that reason, he and his lawyers petitioned for the case against him to be moved from state to federal court. Meadows, who has been a significant and disruptive force in American politics since he arrived in Washington, in 2013, may be trying to have his case heard before a more sympathetic jury. \\u201cI don\\u2019t think there\\u2019s anyone I can think of in American politics,\\u201d the staff writer Jane Mayer says, \\u201cwho\\u2019s put his finger to the wind more often to try to figure out which way it\\u2019s blowing.\\u201d What does Meadows\\u2019s rise\\u2014and now, potential fall\\u2014teach us about the Republican Party today? The New Yorker staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos weigh in.