The White House Bureau Chief of Politico and the host of MSNBC's Way Too Early provide
a thorough and insightful analysis of the state of American politics today,
focusing on Donald Trump's false claim that there was election fraud.
The "Big Lie," as it has been dubbed, is not about the 2020 election, as Jonathan Lemire reveals. The two parties are much more separated now that it has evolved into a political philosophy.
In 2016, during a rally in Ohio in August, Donald Trump made the first attempt. In his run against Hillary Clinton,
he suggested that he might not accept the results because they were "rigged." Later, he brought it up at further rallies and even at one of the autumn debates. The situation was already in place, so he didn't need to contest the outcome that year. He restarted the lie after his defeat in 2020,
which had disastrous consequences: an uprising at the Capitol in January 2021.
Trump still has complete control over the Republican Party. He meets with Republican officials,
potential candidates, and advisers from his retirement at his clubs in Florida
and New Jersey and demands loyalty to this perverse way of thinking. Democrats continue to deal with him even though his opposition party is based on a flagrant lie. The parties are not divided along racial lines; rather, they are separated by planets.
Throughout Donald Trump's turbulent, paradigm-shifting presidency and beyond,
his near-constant lying has established itself as a fact of political life. It connected to how his party acts, how the Democrats react to it,
and how he continues to be relevant even after suffering a crushing defeat in 2020. In his first book,
which examines how this phenomenon shapes our politics, Jonathan Lemire draws
on his relationships, reputation, and tenacious reporting instincts.
The Big Lie is the first book,
to investigate this unusual and precarious juncture in our country's politics,
and it is written with keen political acumen and filled with hundreds of interviews.
Disclaimer: This is an UNOFFICIAL summary of Jonathan Lemire's book, Allow The Big Lie
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