Blowback
A Warning to Save Democracy from Trump's Revenge
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Descripción editorial
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The author behind the “eye-popping” (CNN) #1 New York Times bestseller A Warning presents an urgent look at how our deeply divided nation is setting the stage for “The Next Trump.”
Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism is overtaking the Republican Party and will mount a vigorous comeback, potentially in the hands of a savvier successor—The Next Trump.
This prophecy will come true, according to Miles Taylor, if we do not learn the lessons of the recent past.
With the 2024 election approaching, the formerly “Anonymous” official is back with bombshell revelations and a sobering national forecast. Through interviews with dozens of ex-Trump aides and government leaders, Taylor predicts what could happen inside “Trump 2.0,” the White House of a more competent and more formidable copycat.
What sounds like a political thriller—from shadowy presidential powers and CIA betrayals to angry henchmen and assassination plots—is instead America’s political reality, as Taylor uses untold stories to shed light on the ex-President’s unfulfilled plans, the dark forces haunting our civic lives, and how we can thwart the rise of extremism in the United States.
Blowback is also a surprisingly emotional and self-critical portrait of a dissenter, whose own unmasking provides a vivid warning about what happens when we hide the truth from others and, most importantly, ourselves.
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Taylor, the former Homeland Security official who anonymously denounced the Trump administration in 2019's A Warning, returns with a mixed-bag thought experiment on what would happen if the "Make America Great Again movement does the unthinkable and retakes the White House." Noting that Trump got pushback from the "adults" in the room, Taylor claims that those guardrails would not be present in a second term. Even if a "savvier successor," rather than Trump himself, wins the presidency, distrust of the federal bureaucracy and the instinct to distort reality will rule the day. Taylor identifies numerous areas of concern, including an October 2020 executive order that would have allowed Trump "to strip large parts of the federal workforce of their employment protections." Though President Biden repealed the order, it could be revived by Trump or a "Trump-like figure," leading to a "mass exodus" of competent, experienced, and law-abiding officials. Throughout, Taylor interweaves snapshots of his life before and after he went public as the author of A Warning, revealing how his relationships and mental health suffered. Unfortunately, the book's rhetorical flourishes, including a scene set in 2019 in which Taylor suggests that Trump was about to push the "nuclear button" in the Oval Office, then reveals he was simply ordering a Diet Coke, undermine its core message. This is a disappointment.
