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MissMillie

(38,578 posts)
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 02:39 PM Sep 2020

Has anyone read John Dean's new book?

Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers


I read his trilogy on the GWB administration and authoritarianism and loved those books.

This one has only been out a week, but I only heard about it on NPR this morning.

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Has anyone read John Dean's new book? (Original Post) MissMillie Sep 2020 OP
He's on CNN as i type. spanone Sep 2020 #1
John Dean Has Made A Good Living Off Corrupt repub Presidents sfstaxprep Sep 2020 #2
The only way I can spend time listening to or reading about Trump is ... Snake Plissken Sep 2020 #3
Yes! And it's the most important of all. Please get it! hedda_foil Sep 2020 #4

sfstaxprep

(9,998 posts)
2. John Dean Has Made A Good Living Off Corrupt repub Presidents
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 03:04 PM
Sep 2020

He went dormant for awhile, but came out of the shadows when the Shrub administration started to run wild.

He probably has enough material for another Drumpf book before his term is up.

Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)
3. The only way I can spend time listening to or reading about Trump is ...
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 03:11 PM
Sep 2020

If Sarah Cooper is lip-sinking it,


Other than that it's just too torturous, especially when I try reading a book like this and keep ruminating about how many morons in our country have voted or Trump and how many morons are still willing to vote for him.

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)
4. Yes! And it's the most important of all. Please get it!
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 03:44 PM
Sep 2020

Why do Trump's followers cling to him? Dean and his co-author, Prof. Robert Altmeyer, nail it and it's as appalling as we think it is.

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