Donald Trump is the exact threat our Founding Fathers feared.
Joe Walsh is as rock-ribbed a conservative as they come. But he believes
that no right-wing policy victory is worth the loss of our very
democracy.
In this clear-eyed and unsparing book, Walsh makes the case that Trump
has more in common with the foreign dictators he praises publicly than a
predecessor like Ronald Reagan. Trump is an existential threat to
conservatism, the presidency, and national unity. He has violated the
Constitution in plain sight, assaulted democratic institutions,
overwhelmed the country with disinformation, erected around himself a
cult of personality, and governed according to his narcissism more than
any discernable political philosophy.
Though Walsh agrees with Trump that the Washington elite has hung
working-class America out to dry, traveling down the road to despotism
is no response. And now a person who places himself above the rule of
law and accountability sits in the Oval Office--all that's missing is a
big, beautiful throne behind the Resolute Desk.
In F*ck Silence, Walsh challenges his countrymen, especially his
fellow conservatives, to acknowledge and oppose this unpatriotic and
un-American behavior before we give away what made America great in the
first place: our democracy.