Having grown up in a household where there were always several Dobson and Colson books on the shelf, I am now unsurprised by much of what I found in this book, chilling though it was to read. As this book ends around the time of the end of President Obama's first term, it is very easy to follow the devolution of the Conservative movement and the GOP from that time to the present. Sadly, these days the popular media outlets don't do the kind of research and journalism required to present a piece like this, so the country at large doesn't hear any of this. And in the rare occasions they do hear it, it comes from a crackpot who mixes facts with nonsensical hyperbole so the truth gets lost.

Now, I more fully understand the Clintons' claim of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" that I had always dismissed as just more political fear-mongering. They actually had a point, they were just terrible at articulating it in a way that didn't invite ridicule.