It was interesting to read this very cogent book after the November election. It was clear to almost everyone that Trump would not, or more accurately, could not, change his political personality, or his strategies. This book predicted that result. But the value of the book is not that it is a very inclusive anti-Trump polemic, but rather that Trump’s authoritarian world view has a historical perspective that many of us have missed. The author’s views on the place and function of the media have both truth and special pleading combined. The function of journalism as an objective report of events has been an issue throughout Trump’s tenure, and the discussion of that tenet of First Amendment thought was most interesting. I recommend this book, although the immediacy originally there is now somewhat lessened.