A review by jayclay
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet

3.0

Lost interest about 2/3 of the way through. The author is clearly good at writing and an observant journalist, but he beats the reader over the brow with his opinions on how white supremacy is the root of all our political problems. His commentary on how the Trump “movement” is semi-religious in its fervency and authoritarian in its Utopianism is well taken. But narrowing down the issue to simply a matter of racial prejudice and guilt, is simplistic and ignores the myriad social issues, blowback, countercurrents, and political history that made Trump the figure he is now.