Is Evan McMullin’s presidential candidacy just a protest, or something bigger?

Brynnley Pyne shows her support for a cardboard cutout of her candidate at an Evan McMullin rally in Salt Lake City. It’s difficult to imagine Evan McMullin as an undercover CIA operative lurking in the shadows of South and Central Asia a decade ago, at the height of the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. McMullin, the 40-year-old previously unknown Capitol Hill staffer who is the surprise presidential candidate of 2016, is everlastingly polite and remarkably normal-looking.