Posted on 02/18/2020 1:02:44 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and cohost of Pod Save America, a sharp political playbook for how Democrats can take on Trump, McConnell, Fox News, and the rest of the right-wing circus dominating American politics.
There is nothing more important than beating Donald Trump in 2020, but defeating Trump is just the start of this timely book. Un-Trumping America offers readers three critical insights: first, Trump is not an aberration, but rather the logical extension of the modern Republican Party; second, how Democrats can defeat Trump in 2020; and third, preventing the likes of Trump from ever happening again with a plan to fix democracy.
While the catalog of the president's crimes is long and growing, undoing Trumpism -- the political platform of racism, authoritarianism, and plutocracy that gave rise to Trump and defines the Republican Party -- is a long and continuing fight. Through a craven, cynical strategy engineered by Mitch McConnell, funded by the Kochs, and fueled by Fox News propaganda, Republicans have rigged American politics to drown out the voices of the people in favor of the powerful. Without an aggressive response that recognizes who the Republicans are and what they have done, American democracy as we know it won't survive this moment and a conservative, shrinking, mostly white minority will govern the country for decades.
Un-Trumping America dismantles toxic Trumpism and offers a way forward. Dan Pfeiffer worked for nearly twenty years at the center of Democratic politics, from the campaign trail to Capitol Hill to Barack Obama's White House. But it was Trump's victory and Republicans' incessant aiding and abetting of Trumpism that has radicalized his thinking. Here, Pfeiffer urges Democrats to embrace bold solutions -- from fixing the courts to abolishing the electoral college to eliminating the filibuster -- in order to make America more democratic (and Democratic).
Un-Trumping America is a powerful call for Democrats and progressives to get smarter, tougher, and more aggressive without becoming a paler shade of orange.
On the bright side, it is pretty funny to see how much time he spends living rent-free inside of their minds.
Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America by Seth Abramson
The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote—and How to Get It Back by Thom Hartmann
Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump's Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington by Lachlan Markay
Faking the News: What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump by Ryan Skinnell
We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism—American Style by Kate Aronoff
I Heart Barack: Inspiring Words from the 44th President by Sterling Publishing
The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story by Joy-Ann Reid
Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office by Benjamin Wittes
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig
The Fixers: The Bottom-Feeders, Crooked Lawyers, Gossipmongers, and Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President by Joe Palazzolo, Michael Rothfeld
It’s getting so that bookstores need their own bargain-bin hate sections.
And out of all of these books they sold what...30?
What was his plan for making sure Trump never happened again?
>>author of Yes We (Still) Can
To all: Yes We Can was an Obama slogan
and two years earlier his pal Deval
Patrick used Together We Can (or as some of us in MA put it, Together
We Con). He won the first of two terms as governor of MA. Slightly modified slogan for Barack. Obama later would echo
Patrick’s “just words?” speech.
A late entry into this year’s Dem
prez race, Patrick got a bit over
a thousand votes in NH, 0-point-whatever per cent.He quickly withdrew.
Together We Can’t, eh Deval?
Not gonna happen. We will never go back!
At a bookstore in MA I saw two parents
and a young adult daughter.As they
walked past a stack of Bill Clinton’s “My Life” books, the daughter joked,
“I thought it was called My Lies”.
Good ole Coup de Val. Couldn’t have been elected Governor of Taxachusetts without the help of Willard the Rat.
And what is the logical extension of the modern Democrat party? Josef Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, Ho Chi Minh, Nicolás Maduro, and many others.
In the logical conclusion of your graph,if the commies take over America then the “Democide” will be 63 million of us.
Ignoring the “we’re a democracy” lie for a moment, it’s obvious that the democracy they wish to “bring back” or create rather, is another lie.
The people vote, marriage is between a man and a woman. The socialist elite don’t like that, a court over turns that and the will of the people is dumped into the toilet like a “San Francisco Street Treat”.
Entire schools are forced to endure a boy that says he’s a girl, using locker rooms and bathrooms with girls. Males allowed to compete against females in strength & endurance sports.
Neither of those situations have that “democracy feeling”.
If hypocrisy had a toxic threshold, cafes, safe spaces and bathhouses would be mausoleums.
More ‘fundamentally change’ America jibberish........
Forgot Venezuela.
You know we’ve reached “peak hypocrite” when you hear a Marxocrat mumble about his care for “democracy” and “the constitution.” And we’ve reached “peak liar” too.
Who could forget Venezuela?
Nicolás Maduro.
You can be sure that many of them really do think that way, but only if the camps don’t work to persuade the deplorables to think correctly.
You know, the writing style is so artificial. It’s like they’re using a dictionary of anti-Trump buzzwords.
They’ll work us to death. They may be crazy but not stupid.
Once again for the uneducated masses on the progressive side - the United States was never a democracy! We a are a Constitutional Representative REPUBLIC! Democracy gets you Venezuela.
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