Smart, accessible, and incredibly timely this book is important in today's political landscape.

This felt like an excellent meditation on where Democratic politics are going, what's next, what's needed and how we should press forward with an ever changing and diversifying electorate.

This is an important novel that Maxwell offers. It is timely, concise, and hopeful look at where we and where we can go from here.

The two central theses of this book, both about how Democrats must change in order to win future elections, can be summarized as put more Black, queer, and female folk in positions where they can speak truth to power, and stop wasting resources courting white voters who voted for Trump. Since I already agree with both of these sentiments, it’s hard for me to evaluate how persuasive the author’s argument is, but I found myself nodding along at regular intervals.

The End of White Politics is full of passionate writing about American politics and in particular, what is ailing the Democratic party and liberals. Zerlina Maxwell worked on Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential Campaign and includes thoughts on that campaign and election as well as Obama's election and the 2020 primaries. There is a lot of discussion of identity politics and how this concept becomes more and more relevant as time goes on and America becomes more and more diverse. We all know by now that our political system has LONG been run by primarily white men. It is predicted that in the next 25 years, Caucasians will no longer be a majority and therefore for better representation of the American people we will need more diverse representation in the government. This book was very well thought out and delivered in an energetic way.

I recommend anyone interested in discussion of where the American political system could be headed. Very interesting read particularly in the current social and political climate.

“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” BAM. This book is chock full of perfect summaries and aha! moments like this. I’ve been a fan of Zerlina Maxwell’s for awhile now. Her Twitter feed is my daily required reading on politics, Trump, race, class and any number of related topics. She’s incredibly smart and insightful both on Twitter and on television as a commentator, so it is no surprise that when she gets out of the bite-sized box and really lets loose in a book, it is exceptional.

This book is incisive and straightforward with facts, political trends, and truths that are sometimes hard for white people to hear. But even though the truths are tough I appreciated and absorbed and enjoyed every minute of this book. It’s one of the most important books on current political trends I have read, and should be required reading for all Democrats.

One of the most compelling arguments here that the media refuses to acknowledge is the fact that we don’t need to cater to white working class men as more valuable than voters of color in swinging an election. Here she provides tons of proof for this argument (which is also just plain logic). She also breaks down where some recent white Democratic candidates have gone wrong in a way that is brutally honest and filled with truth. And her insights on Trump are much deeper than those of many pundits.

This book is bold and some may not agree with some of her arguments about some of the current and recent Democratic candidates benefiting from and exploiting white privilege, but I agreed with almost all of them. They’re hard to read but true. Even if you don’t agree it’s hard to see how anyone can ignore all the evidence she presents.

Bottom line? This book is required reading for anyone who wants to beat Trump and 2020, and also for anyone who needs more education on race (which, I submit, is ALL white people), and finally for anyone who wants to read smart and passionate discourse on politics. This is one of those NetGalley books so good that I am going to buy a physical copy to have on my shelf.

Thanks to NetGalley, Zerlina Maxwell and Hachette for the chance to preview this awesome book in exchange for my honest review.

when read in conjunction with other Black Lives Matter reading, this has a place in the formulation of Democratic platforms and policies. Initially I read this in a vacuum and didn’t find it to be broad enough to recommend, but upon re-reading find that this addresses a niche but important part of the puzzle. I hope every Democratic delegate reads this book prior to the convention.

Erratum:
"Kamala's 2020 presidential campagin." - campaign

This book ought to be required reading for anyone involved in getting the Democrat party up to speed for the November election. Zerlina Maxwell is MSNBC's political analyst and also a SiriusXM radio host and she tackles the big issues head-on in this sweeping book that efficiently and competently covers a lot of ground.

The Trump racist presidency has never been exposed more starkly than it has in the last couple of weeks since George Floyd's appalling death at the hands of clearly uncaring white police officer who already had multiple complaints against him, but there is more to that disgrace to the White House than this. Trump's election was, as the author argues, a backlash (or a white-lash if you prefer - and let's face it - when in US history has the black population not felt the white lash?) to eight years of having a black guy in the White House. Well that backlash to eight years brought us eight minutes of cruelty which in turn has spawned weeks of demonstrations which have spread like wildfire around the world.

Far too many insecure white men and women didn't like having a black man in the nation's highest office, and the Democrats mistakenly thought politics à la mode would suffice. They neglected the black vote, specifically the voting power of black women, and the whole country has paid the price for four years now, by electing the least competent president ever elected by majority - or in his case, a minority - vote: a man who is openly abusive of everyone who doesn't kowtow to him, who is misogynistic, racist, homophobic, blinkered, anti-science, bigoted, hypocritical, and unremittingly devoted to the narrowest of self-interest.

Rather than drain the swamp, he expanded it and once again put the Trump name on it. He has shamed the office and the nation causing rifts across the world between the US and every nation that isn't a dictatorship. He's caused untold misery and hobbled the USA in its place on the world stage.

As we saw the most diverse field ever of potential Democrat candidates quickly winnowed down to the business-as-usual old white guy, Maxwell's hammer rings loudly on the anvil of necessary change. This book handily tackles the self-destructive 'Bernie Bros', the problems with Biden, discriminatory public policies - and lack of anti-discriminatory ones - the marginalization of important and downtrodden communities, and the inescapable but ignored fact that, just seven elections from now, the majority of the US voting population will be non-white.

Biden recently embarrassed himself yet again with another thoughtless gaff (words to the effect of: "If you ain't voting for me, you ain't black") that was so mind-numbingly godawful on so many levels. He can't win by being stupid. Stupid is already in the White House and the nation is sick of it. Smart is what's needed. What he ought to have been thinking was that "If I don't steal a few carefully-selected pages from Donald Trump's playbook, I ain't elected." He needs to tackle the man head on and not in the divisive way that Trump does it.

Although very recently, he's stepped-up a bit more, Biden's been largely invisible while Trump has lumbered imposingly around the world stage laying down his law, and despite the overpowering presence of Coronavirus hampering campaigning, it did not have to be that way. Biden already knows (supposedly) Obama's playbook and he isn't even using that one. When will he wake up? Not until after he reads this book. This book is his new playbook and if he doesn't learn from it, and he doesn't change tack, he's going to lose come November because as this author makes clear, he cannot win without winning the black female vote - the one voting block that has been marginalized and undervalued for far too long, and in my opinion he should pick Keisha Bottoms as his running mate - assuming she's even willing. I commend this as not just a worthy read, but as an essential one.

This book.... it wasn’t my favorite. I feel like half of it was made up of half baked thoughts and the other half was things that I’ve already read on Twitter. I couldn’t really figure out the point of the book beyond just “we need to embrace identity politics.” The author defended Hillary Clinton way too much for my liking. There were also a lot of factual errors, such as stating that Trayvon Martin was murdered in 2013, when he was actually murdered in 2012. Her chapter about the Bernie Bros didn’t take into account that more Bernie voters turned out for Hillary in 2016 than Hillary voters turned out for Obama in 2008. The chapter on Joe Biden was the strongest, but the rest of the book lacked a clear focus and showed limited analysis.