Reagan: His Life and Legend - MAGA Dystopia Book

Democracy Book Challenge. Day 7 of the MAGA Dystopia. Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot, 2024. I read this book last month and today I posted this comment on both Facebook and Bluesky as part of my Democracy Book Challenge.

This was well written and a very good revisionist biography by a Republican writer that cut through all of the hero worship. This book also clearly illustrated how this bigoted ignorant Hollywood joker conman and his nasty wife set the stage for the dystopia world we now live in. He made it happen. There would be no Trump without Reagan. Both demented too.

Max Boot does a good job calling out the long history of the MAGA racist southern strategy and the ongoing lies and misinformation of the GOP that really got Nixon going then Reagan and put Trump where we are today. The sections on his governorship of California is very revealing and would make anyone paying attention know what kind of president he would turn out to be.

I also read another book by Max Boot in 2018. The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left The Right.