TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arnsdorf,Isaac
TI  - Finish what we started: the MAGA movement's ground war to end democracy 
SN  - 9780316497510
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown and Company
KW  - Trump, Donald,
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Republicanism
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2017-2021
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Author's note -- Prologue: The Maga king in exile -- True believers -- Extremism no vice -- Nobody, but somebody -- A hundred and thirty-two coffees -- The Virginia model -- Red wave -- Karizona -- Suspicious minds -- The abyss -- The Trump machine -- The Waldorf and the nuthouse -- Complete MAGA takeover -- Epilogue: The people's republic of MAGA -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
N2  - "The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a radical right-wing movement dedicated to dismantling democracy itself. Inspired by Donald Trump's election lies, a growing movement of grassroots activists mobilized around the country to pick up where the insurrection left off, laying the groundwork to succeed next time where Trump had failed to keep himself in power. But their own success in taking over and purging the Republican Party became their undoing as it drove away moderates and supplied the Democrats with a winning message in the 2022 midterms. Still, the MAGA Republicans proved uninterested in learning from that defeat, only becoming more extreme, divisive, and dead set on returning Trump to power. Washington Post national political reporter Isaac Arnsdorf has spent years at the forefront of reporting on this growing movement. Drawing on extensive, exclusive on-the-ground reporting around the country, and deepened by historical context, Arnsdorf has produced the defining journalistic account of the origins, evolution and future of the MAGA movement. Combining critical and rigorous reporting with the intimacy and complexity of a novel, this book is unlike any other in the decade since Donald Trump convulsed and transformed American politics. Finish What We Started tells the story of the ordinary Americans driving this change, who they are and where they came from, what motivates them, and what their movement means for the survival of American democracy"--Dust jacket flap
ER  -