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Lloyd Green

2024 book review: the what-ifs of an election that took US closer to autocracy

a man in a suit and baseball cap walks off and outdoor stage
Donald Trump walks offstage at a rally in Chesapeake, Virginia, on 28 June 2024, the day after his momentous debate with Joe Biden. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Donald Trump is on a roll. The “big, beautiful bill” is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats stand demoralized and divided. 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, is a book for these times: aptly named, deeply sourced.

Kamala Harris declined to speak. Joe Biden criticized his successor in a brief phone call, then balked. Trump talked, of course.

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