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surprisebear's review
I feel like I got all the info I could need/absorb by chapter 10.
mkesten's review against another edition
4.0
This is a deeply troubling account of the currents of political activism that brought Donald Trump to power.
I would call it a sister to Jane Mayer’s “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right.”
And it explains Republicans’ intransigence on even minor matters of public policy.
While indeed money fuels American politics, it is the demonstration of an ideological purity that keeps elected officers in line.
And it is so ironic that the American system was designed to prevent this very scenario where religious ideologues could have such a domineering say over public policy.
There are some very cynical people at the heart of the American radical right, no better than some of the Eastern European leaders or trans-Asian republic potentates, or Putin or royal families of the Middle East.
I happened to be reading this book at the same time I am engrossed in a podcast series about the misbehaviour of Becki and Jerry Falwell Jr. and Falwell’s unwholesome management of Liberty University of Lynchburg, Virginia.
Donald Trump embraced these people because they brought him to power. And Trump in turn gave them the influence over public policy they had coveted for decades.
But they are as awful as he is. And the election of Biden will not stop them.
I would call it a sister to Jane Mayer’s “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right.”
And it explains Republicans’ intransigence on even minor matters of public policy.
While indeed money fuels American politics, it is the demonstration of an ideological purity that keeps elected officers in line.
And it is so ironic that the American system was designed to prevent this very scenario where religious ideologues could have such a domineering say over public policy.
There are some very cynical people at the heart of the American radical right, no better than some of the Eastern European leaders or trans-Asian republic potentates, or Putin or royal families of the Middle East.
I happened to be reading this book at the same time I am engrossed in a podcast series about the misbehaviour of Becki and Jerry Falwell Jr. and Falwell’s unwholesome management of Liberty University of Lynchburg, Virginia.
Donald Trump embraced these people because they brought him to power. And Trump in turn gave them the influence over public policy they had coveted for decades.
But they are as awful as he is. And the election of Biden will not stop them.
jenkneebee's review
Good book, but I'm not in the right head space for this right now
mattmclean's review
challenging
dark
informative
medium-paced
4.0
This god awful book made me feel so hopeless while reading it. It was very informative, but could get bogged down in the names and payments at points. One hopeful takeway from this book was that the number of radical evangelicals is not increasing or staying the same. It is decreasing, however, they have learned how to activate their voting bloc over the past 40 years