RaveVoxWhere How Democracies Die makes its contribution is with an unusually clear analysis of why these norms are so embattled in America ... From this perspective, the book can be read optimistically. For instance, the authors spend considerable time on the dangers of Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which was formed to prove that Trump actually won the popular vote and seemed to foretell new, widespread efforts to disenfranchise voters of color.
Michael Wolff
MixedVoxIt began as a racket, became a business, sparked a movement, and ended in a presidency. It is that bizarre, benighted progression, argues Michael Wolff in his book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, that explains much of the Trump administration’s irresolvable dysfunction ... Wolff’s tell-all has launched to enviable press, publicity, and controversy ... It’s heavily based on a few sources — Ben Domenech, in an allusion to Hillary Clinton’s post-election tome, calls it 'Steve Bannon’s What Happened' — and riddled with typos and small but glaring factual errors... At the same time, the book, read as a whole, contains real insight into the inner workings of the Trump administration ...a book about the collection of cronies, opportunists, misfits, functionaries, family members, and public servants who have tried to construct something that acts and operates like a presidency around a man who neither acts nor operates like a president, a man they all know shouldn’t be the president.
