“He was, rather, an opportunistic, America-first, anti-immigrant, anti-labor, racist politician with few scruples, for whom power and popularity mattered more than ideology.”
“He saw how easy it was to garner headlines by attacking progressive plays as “un-American’.”
"He saw that scaring people (your children are being indoctrinated and Black men want to sleep with your daughters) was a lot more effective than the arduous and consensus-building business of legislating.”
Although the mention of America will allow readers to understand which country this is about, I am also sure of two things:
- You wouldn’t guess the year
- Today, all of us, coming from different countries, we can see here the description of a number of populist and also far-right politicians.
This is why it’s called “The Playbook”.
