When the Clock Broke, John Ganz

 

When the Clock Broke:  Con men, conspiracies, and how America cracked up in the early 1990s by John Ganz

Started: March 30, 2025
Completed: April 5, 2025
Recommendation: Mild recommendation
Recommended By: Nobody

Review:

I feel like this book was intended to show how politics became broken and how that led to electing a broken candidate like Trump.  Then, it feels, like there were slight modifications to the text to understand how he could be elected again.  I sort of feel like politics were less broken and were more an actualization of some pretty horrible points of view.  Those points of view remain and there does not seem to be some kind of a change or generally realization of how wrong Trump is, but some kind of acceptance of his horrible assumptions as being an accurate reflection of reality.  This is very scary to me.