Timothy Carney is the commentary editor of the Washington Examiner, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of two well-received books, the most recent titled “Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses.”
Mr. Carney lives and works in the heart of the Washington idea industry, where one of the current efforts is to make political sense of the Donald Trump phenomenon and attempt to explain his extraordinary victory. He assures us that this book is not another attempt at Trumpian analysis. But it is about what made a Trump presidency possible, more specifically, “about Trump's core supporters, who voted for him in the Republican primaries in 2016,” and why they did.
He takes as his jumping off-point the Trump assertion, in what Victor Davis Hanson calls “the strangest presidential candidate's announcement speech in memory,” that “the American Dream is dead.”
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