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Finish What We Started by Isaac Arnsdorf

This highly detailed, very contemporary account of the MAGA movement's takeover of the republican party will probably not retain its relevance as time passes, but at this moment it's super useful to see the machinations that lead to rising populism within a political party in piercing detail; I took away a few deep thoughts around people, intelligence, this country, its origins, but most entertaining from this read are descriptions of Georgia republicans fighting over how to vote in their own internal meetings so that they can elect new MAGA members so that they can fix voting at the national elections.

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