American Resistance The Inside Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation by David Rothkopf

288 Pages
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date: November 1, 2022

Nonfiction, Politics, Civil Rights, Protests, Immigration, Insurrection

The book is divided into the following parts.

Introduction: A Word of Thanks to the Deep State
Chapter 1: Walking into a Blast Furnace
Chapter 2: The Snake
Chapter 3: “I Obey but I Do Not Comply”
Chapter 4: Russia, Ukraine, and Constitutional Patriotism
Chapter 5: We Have to Act Like We’re Taking This Serious
Chapter 6: The Deep State Versus the Dark State
Chapter 7: Bullets and Boomerangs

The Trump presidency was plagued by greed, misdeed, bad decisions, and poor leadership. Many employees and officials offered advice and options to help the country. The help was not accepted and was also thought to undermine the presidency. The author shows there were people behind the scenes trying to do the right thing.

The issues addressed in the book are the first election, lack of transition team, immigration, border control, building the wall, COVID, Black Lives Matter, and election fraud, and the insurrection of January 6th. This book is written from someone with knowledge of the Washington inner circle and interviews with government officials. If you like politics and current events, this is a peek behind the political curtains.

When Donald Trump became president and he was making all these promises I told my husband there’s too many checks and balances in place for him to go off half cocked and change the laws let alone the structure of our government in this book is a great example of that. A man out of control in those fighting to keep the government running as it should. Donald Trump like most wanna be dictators tries to use fear and threats to get his way but the one thing America doesn’t do is it call Tal to fear tactics I don’t know how so many people have supported this man and I know I’m not discussing the book but I am just so overwhelmed and done with the Donald Trump era. A lot of this book is written from The author‘s first hand account in being so well versed in Washington DC and the running of it. I found it educational and personal enough to make the book interesting I highly recommend this book and I am so glad I’ve read it. I received it from NetGalley and the publisher but I am leaving this review voluntarily please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review.gg

American Resistance by David Rothkopf In many ways I enjoyed reading this book as I have been listening to Mr. Rothkopf’s podcast Deep State for about three years. The problem I had while reading this book is who is it for? Those of us who believe our democracy was extremely stressed by Donald Trump will be forced to relive these issues again through this book. Whereas, MAGA people will ignore the book as more “fake news.” This is America today and Mr. Rothkopf can-not offer any solutions. Nor for that matter can anyone as far as I know. What this book does do well is highlight the efforts of public servants to uphold their constitutional duties over the foolish, selfish and often illegal demands of Trump and his followers in the White House. What this book stresses are Executive Orders can-not be ignored. Instead, the somewhat permanent members of the government must figure out how to fix and minimize the damage of these orders. The book goes into detail about some of the significant issues of the Trump years including, the Muslim ban, building walls, perhaps shooting people coming across from the South, the attempted use of the military on BLM citizens in front of the White House, the “perfect call” with Ukraine and of course 6 January. If you wish to relive these days, I guess this is a book for you. I look forward to going back to his podcast. Some weeks it is a bit positive.

I really enjoyed this one, but I do feel like it had very biased undertones. And I wasn’t quite sure in some instances of the factual evidence.