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405 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 1, 2017
Just for the Ted Cruz chapter alone, this is worth it. Heads up - found the audio on Youtube: https://images.gr-assets.com/books/14...We all do better
when we all do better
Here's the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz. I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.I found the following quotation from the book to articulate a question that's been much on my mind recently.
But now we seem to have entered an era where getting caught lying openly and shamelessly, lying in a manner that insults the intelligence of both your friends and foes, lying about lying, and lying for the sake of lying have all lost their power to damage a politician. In fact, the "Trump Effect" yields the opposite result: Trump supporters seem to approve of the fact that he lies constantly, including to them. Like a movie that is loosely based on a true story, Trump's fans seem to feel that he is making the dull reality of politics more fun and interesting by augmenting it with gross exaggeration, and often utter fantasy.Franken elaborates on this observation but provides no answer as to how we can rise back up to the low-bar level of normal rational interactive communication.