‘The Great Revolt’: Mighty Trump voters are now reshaping politicsBy Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times - Monday, May 7, 2018
The mighty Trump voter gets some significant analysis. “The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics,†by astute syndicated columnist Salena Zito and veteran GOP strategist Brad Todd arrives Tuesday, revealing the authentic spirit and iron-willed determination of some 63 million voters who brought President Trump victory at the polls in 2016.
“Trump’s candidacy would not only defy conventional labeling; the coalition it attracted would be forged on an entirely new axis, welding together the conservative bloc that had become almost chemically opposed to Hillary Clinton with an emerging populist cohort that voted based on its assessment of its own economic and cultural condition,†the authors write.
The book’s many chapters include “Hidden in Plain Sight†and “Red-Blooded and Blue-Collared,†all based on real reporting. The two authors traveled 27,000 miles and talked to 300 Trump voters in critical swing states.
“Virtually every political and media expert missed the potential of Donald Trump because they based their electoral calculus on assumptions that they hadn’t bothered to check since the last presidential election. To recognize the potential of the Trump coalition, analysts would have had to visit places they had stopped visiting, and listen to people they had stopped listening to,†the authors note.
The book has received accolades from the likes of President Trump himself and Rush Limbaugh, among many others. The publisher is Crown Forum, the conservative imprint of Penguin Random House that also publishes authors such as Ann Coulter and Charles Krauthammer.
snip
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/7/inside-the-beltway-mighty-trump-voters-are-now-res/
