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The ten nearest neighbors in Norm Eisen's similarity graph are drawn almost entirely from outside his own subcategory: six are Journalists, with the remaining four spread across Authors, Professionals, Politicians, and Academics — and not one is a fellow Government Official.
The shape is flat: scores run from John Harwood at 0.99 down to Neal Katyal at 0.98, a band of less than 0.01 across all ten positions. No single neighbor dominates; the cluster holds together as a unit. The journalist core includes David Frum (0.99), Philip Rucker (0.99), Natasha Bertrand (0.99), Robert Costa (0.99), and Peter Baker (0.98) — all political and national-security reporters. The non-journalist neighbors reinforce the same orientation: Max Boot (0.99) is an Author, Preet Bharara (0.98) a Professional, Sally Yates (0.98) a Politician, and Neal Katyal an Academic — each associated with legal or national-security commentary rather than electoral politics in the conventional sense.
The absence of other Government Officials in the top 10 is the structural finding: Eisen's audience is shaped less by the government-official peer set and more by the political journalism and legal-commentary ecosystem that surrounds it.
