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Laddar... Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost (utgåvan 2021)av Michael C. Bender (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I think I need to stop reading all of these books about the Trump presidency - I keep hoping that there will be some new information, but that rarely happens. This one was well written, but the author tends to get too much into the weeds on certain topics, which quickly becomes boring. Other than some interviews with Trump mega-supporters, there is little to distinguish this book from any other. ( ) The Donald Gaslights Himself Review of the Grand Central Publishing hardcover (2021) One of the truisms in Trump World held that the constant chaos and plot twists were always surprising but never shocking. The absurdity of it all always seemed to make sense. And Trump's insurrection was the ultimate coda - a horrifying but inevitable finale. He'd spent four years insisting that the media was lying, that elected officials weren't to be believed, and that the courts weren't to be trusted. He'd spent his entire presidency gaslighting the country with a version of reality in which he'd never lost, he'd never be convicted and he'd never really go away. ... He vowed to keep fighting to deliver "American greatness" across the country. He described the MAGA movement as "historic, patriotic and beautiful." At this point I think I've read a few too many of the Trump post-mortem books and this one took me the full 3 weeks of library loan time to get through it. In comparison, the Michael Wolff Landslide and the Bob Woodward Peril were a breeze. Leonnig/Rucker's I Alone Can Fix It was also a bit of a slog, but at 592 pages most anything would be. I didn't get the sense that there was anything much new in this one. Its one unique feature was several interviews with various so-called "Front Row Joes", Trump mega-fans who attended as many Trump election rallies as possible during the campaign i.e. dozens and in States all across the country. The fact that they were so deluded by the huckster isn't exactly new information though, but they are at least a representation of the 75 Million others. One quote really stood out though. "It just looked so neat,” she said. “We weren’t there to steal things. We weren’t there to do damage. We were just there to overthrow the government” - 'Front Row Joe' Saundra about the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capital. The other standout is minor, but it is the single acknowledgement by Trump that he had lost the election that I have ever seen. It wasn't public however, but was mentioned in what was likely a national security briefing which was attended by General Mark A. Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump apparently asked to skip over one item in the meeting's agenda and the reason given was: "We'll leave that for the next guy," Trump said. Similar to the conclusions of Wolff's Landslide and Leonnig & Rucker's I Alone..., Bender interviews Trump at his Florida Mar-a-Lago resort for his Epilogue. He also finds him basking in the glow of the attention of his associates and still defiant. It is a fairly recent entry, so Frankly, We Did Win This Election currently (as of mid December 2021) does not yet appear on the Trump Tell-Alls Listopia (251 books and counting) or the Books About, By or Involving Donald Trump Listopia (497 books and counting) on Goodreads. I read Frankly, We Did Win this Election as part of my reading survey of various books in relation to the 2020 American Election and ongoing events. As a Canadian I’ve generally ignored American politics and elections in past years, but the drama of the situation in 2020 and 2021 has heightened my interest. The best thing about this now-oft-told tale is the time spent on the Front Row Joes. There's scarcely a diner left that hasn't been invaded by curious journalists trying to understand Trump-mania but Bender gently visits the faithful to uncover the obvious: an almost crushing need to belong. This, more than anything else, was (and still is) Trump's secret sauce. Michael C. Bender's Frankly We Did Win This Election is an engrossing explanation as to why Trump actually didn't win the election. For me, the crafting of this detailed analysis around the personal experiences and reaction of "the 'Front Row Joes,' a group of more than 1,500 Trump diehards who routinely traveled to see the president perform and were almost always among the first few people in line for a rally," gave the story a human touch. I could recognize in them some of my family and friends who are also caught up in the alternate reality of Trumpery. I am aware that they will not be able to bear a reading of this today, but I live in hope that one day the shingles will fall off their eyes and they can see then what they are too dazed to perceive today.
Ranging from the halls of power to the “Front Row Joes” who dutifully showed up for every Trump rally, Bender delivers a nuanced, sharp account whose leitmotif is puzzlement: Trump’s that he lost, Mitch McConnell’s that Trump wouldn’t let it go (he tried to get Bill Barr to convince Trump to back off his claims of election fraud), and Mike Pompeo’s that, as he put it late in the day, “the crazies have taken over.” A thoroughly revealing account of a spectacularly inept presidential campaign that politics junkies will eat up. The book depicts the inner workings of a White House and presidential campaign in turmoil, as Trump's subordinates fought each other for influence and grappled with obeying presidential orders that often contradicted basic democratic and constitutional norms.... The disorganization of the campaign bled into efforts to contest the election after the president's loss, the book says. A defiant Trump ordered aides to pursue dozens of lawsuits and to pressure government aides and allies at the state and federal levels to help him overturn the election results....Bender described an aggrieved and somewhat directionless Trump determined to win back power. "What am I going to do all day?" Trump asked one aide upon landing at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida after leaving the White House. The former president's future remains unclear, though his power within conservative politics is unquestioned. Wall Street Journal reporter Bender debuts with an immersive, blow-by-blow rundown of Donald Trump’s failed reelection campaign. Interweaving fly-on-the-wall accounts of White House meetings with profiles of "Front Row Joes" who traveled across the country to attend Trump rallies, Bender covers the period from Trump’s first impeachment in December 2019 through his second acquittal in February 2021.... Though the analysis often feels rote, Bender’s insider access impresses, and he enriches the narrative with a sharp sense of humor, describing Trump’s first debate performance against Joe Biden as a "hurricane of assholery." Political junkies will gobble this one up. Bender covers the White House for the Wall Street Journal. Frankly, We Did Win This Election is his first book. It is breezy, well-written and well-informed. He captures both the infighting in Trump’s world and the surrounding social tectonics.... Focusing on the 2020 election, a contest under the deathly shadow of Covid, Bender conveys the chaos and disorganization of the Trump campaign.... Bender makes clear that Trump is neither gone nor forgotten. His acquittal in his second impeachment, for inciting the Capitol attack, only reinforced his desire to fight another day. “There has never been anything like it,” Trump tells Bender. So true.
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HTML: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Beginning with President Trump??s first impeachment and ending with his second, FRANKLY, WE DID WIN THIS ELECTION chronicles the inside-the-room deliberations between Trump and his campaign team as they opened 2020 with a sleek political operation built to harness a surge of momentum from a bullish economy, a unified Republican Party, and a string of domestic and foreign policy successes??only to watch everything unravel when fortunes suddenly turned. With first-rate sourcing cultivated from five years of covering Trump in the White House and both of his campaigns, Bender brings readers inside the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One, and into the front row of the movement??s signature mega-rallies for the story of an epic election-year convergence of COVID, economic collapse, and civil rights upheaval??and an unorthodox president??s attempt to battle it all. Fresh interviews with Trump, key campaign advisers, and senior administration officials are paired with an exclusive collection of internal campaign memos, emails, and text messages for scores of never-before-reported details about the campaign. FRANKLY, WE DID WIN THIS ELECTION is the inside story of how Trump lost, and the definitive account of his final year in office that draws a straight line from the president??s repeated insistence that he would never lose to the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol that imperiled one of his most loyal lieutenants??his Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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