A review by fahimiqbal23
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus by Matt Taibbi

4.0

I've been reading a lot of post election books for example, I've read Michael Bender's book, "Frankly We Did Win This Election". Which was about how Trump lost the election in 2020. While I enjoyed reading Bender's book, I find myself entertained by reading Taibbi's book. Just getting flashbacks of all the Republican candidates who were running for the election at the time like Bobby Jindal or Rand Paul. I overall agree with Taibbi's critique for the rise of Trump and the growing popularity of Bernie Sanders. The truth was the political environment since the rise of the Tea Party and the more right wing faction of the Republican party was never going to be favourable for a self styled moderate like Jeb Bush, (shocking how the Republican establishment spent 100 million dollars for this guy) or a milquetoast Republican version of Obama like Marco Rubio. Another good part of the book was highlighting the problems with political journalism during the campaign and how it is more personality than substance as well as the smugness of the "establishment". I also enjoyed Taibbi's journal style reporting of the 2016 election campaign which he gives credit to Jann Wenner. The only negative that I have with Taibbi surrounds the whole idea of globalism and Free Trade, although I think that shouldn't take away from his excellent writing and critiques. I think for anyone who wants a book exploring the election campaign this is a really good book to read.

Favourite Chapters: Casting Clown Car, Inside the GOP Clown Car, America is too dumb for news,
Revenge of the Simple: How George W. Bush Gave Rise to Donald Trump, Why Young People are Right about Hilary Clinton, The Failure and Fury of Donald Trump, President Trump: How American Got it Wrong, President Obama's last stand.

Least Chapters: The Great Derangement Redux

Book Rating: 8/10