Books, Real and Imagined

Since life-long Republican consultant Stuart Stevens is currently promoting his book about how the Left was right about the Right all along (from the Penguin Random House blurb):

ABOUT IT WAS ALL A LIE

From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal exposé of how his party became what it is today

Stuart Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. He knows the GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in this new book he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass.

This is not a book about how Donald J. Trump hijacked the Republican Party and changed it into something else. Stevens shows how Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s...

STUART STEVENS is the author of seven previous books, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, and Outside, among other publications...

I thought it might be amusing to imagine the identical book, but written by one of us Murrica-hating, terrorist-loving, surrender-monkey Libtards

Perhaps with this blurb from the imaginary publishing house that would dare to print such a thing:

ABOUT WE WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG

From the most obscure single-shingle Liberal political blogger of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal exposé of how Liberals were right about the Right all along.

Driftglass spent 15 years writing about the atrocities of the Republican Party and the failures of the media. He knows the real GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in this new book he offers a devastating portrait of a party that became a degenerate shitpile of bigots, imbeciles and demagogues decades ago, and the American political media which helped enable it.

This is not a book about how Donald J. Trump hijacked the Republican Party and changed it into something else. Driftglass repeats for the 10.000th time that Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s. Driftglass reiterates what every Liberal has known all along -- that racism is the central pillar the GOP, from Goldwater’s opposition to desegregation to Ronald Reagan’s welfare queens and states’ rights rhetoric. He gives a despised-outsiders account of the rank hypocrisy of the party’s claims to embody “family values,” and shows how the party’s vaunted commitment to fiscal responsibility has been a charade since the 1980s. When a party stands for nothing but white supremacy and hating the government, he argues, it was inevitable that it would become a monster-machine capable of producing Donald Trump.

We Were Right All Along is not just an indictment of the Republican Party, but a candid and often lacerating "we fucking told you do". Driftglass' "ask" is simple: that to save the country, the frauds, ghouls, liars and network executives in the media who conspired to lie about the GOP all along need to be immediately shit-canned and replaced by those who were right about the Right all along.

DRIFTGLASS  is the author of zero previous books because writing a book is a pretty big undertaking and the DNC has told him they wouldn't bulk-buy it onto the New York Times best-list.  His work has not appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire or Outside, because those spots are reserved for Bush regime dead-enders. 

I Promise To Close My Tip Jar The Minute My Penguin Random House Advance Comes Through