Donald Trump is the
exact threat our Founding Fathers feared.
Joe Walsh is as rock-ribbed a conservative as they come. But
he believes that no right-wing policy victory is worth the loss of our very
democracy.
In this clear-eyed and unsparing book, Walsh makes the case
that Trump has more in common with the foreign dictators he praises publicly
than a predecessor like Ronald Reagan. Trump is an existential threat to
conservatism, the presidency, and national unity. He has violated the
Constitution in plain sight, assaulted democratic institutions, overwhelmed the
country with disinformation, erected around himself a cult of personality, and
governed according to his narcissism more than any discernable political
philosophy.
Though Walsh agrees with Trump that the Washington elite has
hung working-class America out to dry, traveling down the road to despotism is
no response. And now a person who places himself
above the rule of law and accountability sits in the Oval Office—all that’s
missing is a big, beautiful throne behind the Resolute Desk.
In F*ck Silence, Walsh challenges his countrymen,
especially his fellow conservatives, to acknowledge and oppose this unpatriotic
and un-American behavior before we give away what made America great in the
first place: our democracy.
