You're Fired
The Perfect Guide to Beating Donald Trump
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Publisher Description
Donald Trump became famous bellowing, “You’re fired!” on TV in a make-believe boardroom. Now, millions of Americans want to yell it right back at him—but Trump has seemed to almost defy the laws of political physics. Paul Begala, one of America’s greatest political talents, lays out the strategy that will defeat Trump and send him and his industrial-strength spray-on tan machine back to Mar-a-Lago.
In You’re Fired, Paul Begala tells us how Trump uses division to distract from the actual reality of his record. Distraction, he argues, is Trump’s superpower. And this book is Kryptonite. In it, the man who helped elect Bill Clinton and reelect Barack Obama, details:
—The special weapons and tactics needed in the unconventional war against this most unconventional politician
—How to drive a wedge—or, rather, a pickup truck—between Trump and many of his supporters, especially blue-collar workers and farmers
—Where the votes to defeat Trump will come from, and how the Rising American Electorate can catch Trump flat-footed
—How Democrats can run on issues ranging from Coronavirus and healthcare to the economy, as well as climate change and Trump’s long-term plan to dominate the federal judiciary
—There is one chapter called simply, “This Chapter Will Beat Trump.” Find out why Begala is so confident and what issue he says will sink the Trumptanic
Full of memorable advice and Begala’s trademark wit, You’re Fired focuses on the lessons we can learn from the party’s successes and failures—and the crucial tools Democrats need to beat Trump.
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Political pundit Begala (Third Term) delivers a digressive, quip-filled road map for defeating Donald Trump and congressional Republicans in the 2020 elections. Addressing hot-button topics including climate change, the coronavirus pandemic, health care, voter suppression, and the wealth gap, one-by-one, Begala first offers well-worn critiques of the Trump administration and its conservative supporters, then advises Democrats on how they can run on the issue at hand. Though he claims that the key lesson liberals should take from 2016 is to make the next election "about voters' lives, not Trump's character," Begala routinely appears to ignore his own advice. He mocks everything from Trump's middle name ("Jaundice," "Jerkface," "Jughead") to Mitch McConnell's legislative strategy ("The guy couldn't pass gas in a men's room in a taco bar"), and only sketches how Democratic policies would actually improve people's lives. Though Begala identifies where previous campaigns went wrong by trying to refute Trump's attacks rather than ridicule and recontextualize them, for instance his prediction that Democrats can win simply by vowing to protect Social Security and other entitlements will strike many progressives as naive, given Trump's hold on the Republican base. This centrist polemic muddles its message.