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Really enjoyed this book, but I don’t buy Romney’s claim he has been blind to and only recently discovered the deep rooted anger of his party.
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
Interesting look at Romney. Informative and engaging. I liked it for what it was.
informative
medium-paced
The author had so much access to Romney and the book was very enlightening as a result.
Fascinating read. I appreciated Romney's willingness for public reckoning and admitting mistakes he's made. Only wish for the book is that I personally expected a bit more reckoning. Super interesting for its inside look at Washington during the Trump years, and how he handled being the only sane republican on capitol hill.
Pretty good I like him even if I don't agree with his takes
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This book was helpful. I am a white women who was raised both Mormon and by republican parents in California. I would strongly caveat this statement by noting that the family I was raised in often conflated the worst of GOP politics, racist views and patriarchy with religion resulting in life changingly devastating consequences.
Reading this book, started with a prayer as I was watching the mainstream United States, ignore and worse fund a genicide taking place in Gaza. The pleas of millions of people being ignored and an annihilation being funded by the base I grew up in. As I watched predominantly red states put women in danger. Flagrant xenophobia make it to national television without shame and with the moniker, good Christian values attached, I begged in a prayer to know that the god I have always loved didn’t agree to this, that this wasn’t a legacy I had to live with.
This book echoed that sentiment in so many ways. While there are places that I do not agree with Romney’s political views, many in fact, I was humbled and relieved to feel and hear a voice that abhorred racism and found the new GOP as vile as I do. It was, to quote the book, a view I could work with.
This book gave me hope that I am not alone in my desire for a country with empathy and compassion. Or a country that cares about and protects black and brown lives. It also gave me a moment to consider how I too could raise my voice and stand for a country that remembers its humanity, that it is a country of immigrants. That women are half the sky and deserve to be protected and defended and that the lgbtq+ community is not a punching bag or a punchline. To stand for a country that remembers that Jesus was Palestinian that was more comfortable with the homeless and prostitutes than the Jews running the synagogues.
Reading this book, started with a prayer as I was watching the mainstream United States, ignore and worse fund a genicide taking place in Gaza. The pleas of millions of people being ignored and an annihilation being funded by the base I grew up in. As I watched predominantly red states put women in danger. Flagrant xenophobia make it to national television without shame and with the moniker, good Christian values attached, I begged in a prayer to know that the god I have always loved didn’t agree to this, that this wasn’t a legacy I had to live with.
This book echoed that sentiment in so many ways. While there are places that I do not agree with Romney’s political views, many in fact, I was humbled and relieved to feel and hear a voice that abhorred racism and found the new GOP as vile as I do. It was, to quote the book, a view I could work with.
This book gave me hope that I am not alone in my desire for a country with empathy and compassion. Or a country that cares about and protects black and brown lives. It also gave me a moment to consider how I too could raise my voice and stand for a country that remembers its humanity, that it is a country of immigrants. That women are half the sky and deserve to be protected and defended and that the lgbtq+ community is not a punching bag or a punchline. To stand for a country that remembers that Jesus was Palestinian that was more comfortable with the homeless and prostitutes than the Jews running the synagogues.
This was outstanding. I cannot stop thinking about it. I particularly loved how well Coppins showed both his shortcomings, particularly in his early political career, and when he really stepped up later and how that difference came about.