A review by jrboyne
The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump by Alan I. Abramowitz

3.0

This was a very interesting book analyzing a wide range of political and economic data linked to the past seven decades of national elections in the United States. Any fan of statistical and polling data in politics would enjoy this read as the author, for the most part, sticks to the data as a means of telling the story. However, I found it difficult at times not to clearly see the author's own political biases coming out in terms of the analysis of the data and to which data was emphasized. The last couple of chapters highlighting the 2016 election highlighted a line of thinking as to why Trump won to a very liberal and biased few of the racial stereotypes of white working class individuals who didn't complete a college education. I found that most unfortunate and was certainly limited by the timing of the book in terms of judging Trump's early policies in office. Still a good read to those interested.