| Book Name: | American Carnage by Tim Alberta PDF |
| Author: | Timothy alberta |
| Category: | Politics Books |
| Language: | English |
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Book Description:
The chief political correspondent for Politico Magazine gives an exciting insider’s look at how the modern Republican Party came to be. He shows how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare left the GOP open to a hostile takeover by the unlikeliest insurgents: Donald J. Trump.
The 2016 election was a turning point for the US. But, as Tim Alberta writes in American Carnage, the best way to understand Trump’s victory is to see him not as the person who started this era of partisanship and polarization but as the most obvious result of it.
In American Carnage, the rise of a president is based on how a country changed and how a political party fell apart. As George W. Bush left office with record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of truth: they had no vision, no new leaders, and no energy in the party’s base. But Obama’s aggressive pursuit of his progressive agenda and the country’s rapidly changing cultural and demographic landscape set the right on fire. This brought Republicans back to power and set the stage for a bloody fight over the party’s identity in the years after Bush. The new groups, one led by absolutists like Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz and the other by pragmatists like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, fought each other and tried to take control in a series of violent fights and failed coups. With the GOP’s internal divisions making it unable to pass laws and that inability causing more and more people to dislike politicians and political institutions, the stage was set for an outsider to crash the party. When Trump walked down a gold escalator to announce his presidential run in the summer of 2015, the time was right.
We can only understand how Trump won the White House and think about the big questions at the heart of America’s problems if we see him as the result of a decade-long civil war in the Republican Party and the cultural, social, economic, and technological changes that went along with it. How did a party that was constantly worried about the national debt vote for trillion-dollar deficits and spending increases that broke all records? How did the party of compassionate conservatism turn into the party of Muslim bans and walls? How did the party that stands for family values pick a man who has been divorced three times? And most importantly, how long can a party like this last?
American Carnage is full of exclusive reporting based on hundreds of interviews with key players like President Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Jim DeMint, Reince Priebus, and many others. It takes us behind the scenes of this turbulent time as we’ve never seen it before and establishes Tim Alberta as the best historian of this political era.
Book Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index
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