Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party
by Jonathan Karl
View on GoodreadsABC News's Jonathan Karl on the post-presidency Trump — the Mar-a-Lago years, the comeback, the indictments, and the GOP's complete capture by him despite the supposed exile.
Core ideas
- The "exile" was nothing of the kind — Trump's grip on the party tightened in defeat, and the figures who briefly distanced themselves (McCarthy, McConnell, Pence) all moved back into alignment as the math became clear.
- The indictment era didn't damage Trump politically; it consolidated him, by reframing legal accountability as persecution to a base already primed for that reading.
- Karl, as a reporter Trump alternately uses and attacks, captures the on-the-record material that other reporters don't get because his interviewing relationship is itself part of the Trump performance.
Published2023
Pages335
ISBN9780593473993
ReadNov 2023
