American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump - c
<strong><em>Politico Magazine</em>’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald J. Trump.</strong><br /><br />The 2016 election was a watershed for the United States. But, as Tim Alberta explains in <em>American Carnage</em>, to understand Trump’s victory is to view him not as the creator of this era of polarization and bruising partisanship, but rather as its most manifest consequence.<br /><br /><em>American Carnage</em> is the story of a president’s rise based on a country’s evolution and a party’s collapse. 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 reckoning: They had no vision, no generation of new leaders, and no energy in the party’s base. Y
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