A review by adkwriter15
This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy by Jonathan Martin

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I've been reading a lot of recent political science lately, and a lot of it tends to end with Trump and (because I've been focusing on this) really zero in on changes in the Republican Party. While, obviously, the stuff going on over there is pretty seismic, we are now two years into Biden's term and things have not gone to either party's full plan. I really appreciated that this book took the end of Trump's presidency as the center of a ripple, but one that has had major effects on both parties that didn't just stop when Biden got elected. It not only showed how events have caused schisms within the Republican Party but also among the Democrats as well. It also was very frank about how these schisms and other things have caused trouble and even failure within the Democratic Party, which isn't something I've seen touched on as yet in my more recent reading. The authors interviewed numerous people for this book on both sides, as high up as party leaders and even Trump. There are changes afoot in both parties as generations change and politics become increasingly combative, and this book gives you a decent snapshot of what that means and looks like in today's politics. On the writing side, it was just superbly written (and sourced!) and flowed incredibly well--not something you can say for all nonfiction, but a definite plus here.