PositiveWashington PostInsurgency is persuasive in suggesting that the long-term transformation of the Republican Party is one in which a style of politics has overpowered, and then suffocated, any remnant of its substance ... Peters highlights earlier episodes that, put together, leave Trump looking like an inevitable outcome rather than an unlikely outlier ... The journey from Dennis Miller Republicans to Infowars Republicans is, to a significant degree, the story of Peters’s book ... Peters obsesses over the impact of right-wing media to the point that it almost reads like a separate book within a book. It is an understandable impulse, yet at times it gives Insurgency a disjointed feel.
