Like the President himself, they are simultaneously dumb and not-dumb-at-all-they are ignorant but have a certain savvy, wrong about nearly everything but right about enough that it’s easy to see how even somewhat intelligent people could come to accept it. They are also-and this is frequently missed by left critics-very good, because they package their ideological message clearly and effectively, in language anybody can understand, mixing jokes, statistics, factoids, stories, sophistry, quotes from the other side, and emotional appeals. They are very bad because much of what they say is wrong and ignorant, they show little understanding of issues they declaim confidently on, and they peddle a worldview that, if accepted widely, would lead to the suffering and death of billions of people. The first thing you should know about conservative books is that they are simultaneously very bad and very good. has said and done.) But I must review it as if Triggered was indeed written by Trump Jr., because other than the fact that it reads as if it is by someone who writes books for a living, I have no hard evidence that this is not in fact the singlehanded work of a Trump child. speaks admiringly of all that Donald Trump Sr. is known not to have written books that have appeared under his name, and in Triggered Donald Trump, Jr. (It is possible that I am cynical in part because Donald Trump, Sr. did write it, he does an excellent imitation of a ghostwriter imitating him. In fact, it reads exactly like the kind of book a high level professional ghostwriter would produce, so if Donald Trump, Jr. In most circumstances, it is reasonable to assume that a person whose name is listed as the author on a book’s cover is the person who sat down and wrote it, but despite the reviews claiming that Triggered is a very bad book, Triggered would in fact be an impressive book for a person who is not a professional writer. Because I doubt any of my leftist friends intend to read this book, and because I feel as if there are benefits to understanding what is in this book if you are a leftist, I have hauled myself from cover to cover and would like to offer some observations about its contents.įirst, let us assume that he wrote it. 1 bestselling book in the country at the moment, aided in part by a bump from the Republican Party’s bulk buying apparatus. Donald Trump, Jr.’s Triggered recently became the No.
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