Grand Old Unraveling: The Republican Party, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Authoritarianism

Building on his esteemed 2016 book, What Happened to the Republican Party?, John Kenneth White proposes to explain why the Republican Party has become home to conspiracy thinking, including a belief that lost elections were rigged--not just the election of Trump but the authoritarian shift in the party as a whole that led to the insurrection of January 6, 2021, and its aftermath.