Summary of Why We Did It: by Tim Miller - A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Heal - A Comprehensive Summary
Alexander Cooper
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Why We Did It - A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Heal - A Comprehensive Summary
A tiny group of Republican elites has controlled a significant portion of the political coverage throughout the Trump era. These Republican leaders are torn between their professional desire to appease the brutal champion chosen by their party's people and their personal disgust for Trump.
It is quite justified to pay the Republican elites this kind of obsessive attention. The main factor determining whether a democracy can fend off an authoritarian challenge, according to Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky How Democracies Die, is whether the aspiring dictator's coalitional allies stay with him and reap the benefits of power or overthrow him and form a pro-democracy coalition with their ideological rivals. They have massively backed Trump and the movement he has created, which rejects the validity of Democratic political victory in any way, as we now know.
These Republicans' thought processes have rarely been concealed. They have consistently leaked to the media, which explains both their disdain for the golfer-warlord of their party and their determination that they must continue to forward his agenda, at least in public. Trump's hesitant friends have released a barrage of information that implicates both him and them, including the now-famous Republican employee who defended Trump's unwillingness to accept defeat from Joe Biden by...
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A tiny group of Republican elites has controlled a significant portion of the political coverage throughout the Trump era. These Republican leaders are torn between their professional desire to appease the brutal champion chosen by their party's people and their personal disgust for Trump.
It is quite justified to pay the Republican elites this kind of obsessive attention. The main factor determining whether a democracy can fend off an authoritarian challenge, according to Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky How Democracies Die, is whether the aspiring dictator's coalitional allies stay with him and reap the benefits of power or overthrow him and form a pro-democracy coalition with their ideological rivals. They have massively backed Trump and the movement he has created, which rejects the validity of Democratic political victory in any way, as we now know.
These Republicans' thought processes have rarely been concealed. They have consistently leaked to the media, which explains both their disdain for the golfer-warlord of their party and their determination that they must continue to forward his agenda, at least in public. Trump's hesitant friends have released a barrage of information that implicates both him and them, including the now-famous Republican employee who defended Trump's unwillingness to accept defeat from Joe Biden by...
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