Just read “The Flight 93 Election”.
It is good, but misunderstands how we got to where we are.
The Left did not just happen to take over the schools, academia, and think tanks. It happened because of the centralization of the media, its takeover by “progressivism” and the lack of any serious opposition to it for decades.
Trump’s rise did not happen because Trump picked the right issues. That was part, but not the most important part.
The most important part was that we had built new and alternate media that could get Trump’s message out. He was able to fight the Establishment media and win. The new media was not built by Trump, but he took full advantage of it.
That is why Trump’s election will prove effective and lasting. The Mediacracy’s hold on the dissemination of infromation has been broken. It cannot easily be put back together.
And Trump is exactly the President we need to fragment the media establishment, and set it to fighting each other and aggressively checking each other for “Fake News”.
The Establishment media is the key, and Anton does not emphasize that enough.
While that was important, I disagree that it was the most important. The most important was that Trump had a message to get out - and that message was that things have to change a lot, change now, and I know how to get shit done and change them.
It's the getting shit done (and I am deliberately using profanity here because leaders trying to get stuff done swear a lot to move things along - Patton) where conservatives have been missing the boat for so long. They thought it was all about a philosophical argument with the left, when it was about power to do stuff. Alinsky was about getting power to do stuff that his followers wanted to get done. Conservatives were about stopping that. Nothing more. Just stopping that. And so, inch by inch, yard by yard, bill by bill, regulation by regulation conservatives lost the war of attrition they could not win.
Trump reversed that by being about getting power to do stuff. The last two presidents like that were Teddy Roosevelt and Grant.