I have read a few books by Never-trumpers. What makes this book valuable is that Max Boot has taken the time to be self-critical. Boot used for a party line conservative Republican. He has left the Republican party because itemized Trump. He is a tough critic of his former self, but his writing is excellent. The effort is successful because Boot has learned from his experience.

For someone who was never Trump until you voted for him on Election Day 2016, please be honest and open minded as you read this.. I am a center left Democrat and I find the view of the writer after reading this book very similar to my own.

Never an activist in politics I find myself preparing to cast, in just a few weeks, straight ticket votes for the Democratic candidates for Governor and whatever legislative offices are on the ballot in my state...I don't really care who they are. Always a Republican voter it is not Trump so much as the very collapse of courage, honor, reason, and principle among the candidates and office holders in the Republican Party that has alienated me forever. The Libertarian vote I cast for President in the general election was my statement at the time....like the author, I had no idea the rest of the party was so completely gutless.