If you’re looking for an inside view of the Republican schism between populist and Never Trump wings, this is a pretty solid book, with occasionally pithy writing. If, like me, you want to explore the “paranoid style” from the John Birch Society onwards, you’re going to be underwhelmed. Basically it’s a view of the rise of the Tea Party through the first few years of Trump’s presidency from a Never Trump perspective, valuable in its own way but hardly the social or political commentary I was hoping for.