Will not survive that The Fall of the Shining City What Happened to the Republican Party Why it Happened And What Must Happen Now to Save American DemocracyThoughtful and sobering assessment of today s political settingI would recommend this book to anyone who is scared or concerned with the political climate today Comparative conclusions and a look back at the history and platforms of the parties current and long dead This is a book the MAGA Republicans won t appreciate but has the capacity to possibly convert some of the less hard core and intelligent Trumpers The Fall of the Shining City What Happened to the Republican Party Why it Happened And What Must Happen Now to Save American Democracy

The Fall of the Shining Citydetails the rise of Donald Trump and the historic destruction and transformation of the Republican Party Yes there have been numerous books and essays written on this subject but frankly none of them have gotten it quite right Unlike liberal pundits who have spent their lives opposing the Republican Party or Trump administration insiders looking to cash in the authors spent a lifetime in the Republican Party as a staffer candidate elected official and State Party Chairman Since 2016 he has been in the political wilderness trying to build a Never Trump opposition movement Section one details what happened to the Republican party what the author saw as the party of the Shining City rose declined and fell between 1980 and today Section two will focus on why it fell An honest look at the history of the GOP shows that the deconstruction of the party began late in George W Bush s second term and was driven by a massive shift in America s demographic and cultural realities with Trump as the accelerant Finally section three deals with what must be done now Unless traditional free market libertarian leaning Republicans and former Republicans rise up and form a new party or likely a faction to fight within the GOP America may soon face a two party system in which one of those parties is a protofascist consistent threat to the Constitution and democracy itself America and the world we have known since 1945.