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NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS CHOICE How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump From an acclaimed political reporter for The New York Times comes the definitive story of the mutiny that shattered American politics
A bracing account of how the party of Lincoln and Reagan was hijacked by gadflies and grifters who reshaped their movement into becoming an antidemocratic cancer that attacked the US CapitolJoe Scarborough
An epic narrative chronicling the fracturing of the Republican Party Jeremy Peterss Insurgency is the storyof a party establishment that believed it could control the dark energy it helped fomentright up until it suddenly couldnt How Peters asks did conservative values that Republicans claimed to cherish like small government fiscal responsibility and morality in public service get completely eroded as an unshakable faith in Donald Trump grew to define the party
The answer is a tale traced across three decadeswith new reporting and firsthand accounts from the people who were thereof populist uprisings that destabilized the party The signs of conflict were plainly evident for anyone who cared to look After Barack Obamas election convinced many Republicans that they faced an existential demographics crossroads many believed the only way to save the party was to create a more inclusive and diverse coalition But party leaders underestimated the energy and popular appeal of those who would pull the party in the opposite direction They failed to see how the rightwing media they hailed as truthtelling was warping the reality in which their voters lived And they did not understand the complicated moral framework by which many conservatives would view Trump leading evangelicals and oneissue voters to shed Republican orthodoxy if it delivered a Supreme Court that would undo Roe v Wade
In this sweeping history Peters details key junctures and episodes to unfurl the story of a revolution from within Its architects had little interest in the America of the new century but a deep understanding of the iron will of a shrinking minority With Trump as their polestar their gamble paid greater dividends than theyd ever imagined extending the life of farright conservatism in United States domestic policy into the next half century
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