Book Review: I Alone Can Fix It

 

This book is the follow-up to the book A Very Stable Genius by the same authors which detailed the first couple of years of t***p's presidency. Like that book, this one adds details to widely reported stories and fleshes out (mainly through accounts of people who were "in the room" as things happened) behind-the-scenes details. It picks up right after the first impeachment and goes through to January 20th, focusing a lot on the Covid response and events leading up to, including, and then following the 2020 election. The authors generally keep their personal feelings and opinions out of the book, just presenting what they were told, and leaving readers to make up their own minds about the people involved.

Really this could be titled "The Shit Show" part 2. If the first book detailed how stupid and unqualified t***p was to do anything, this one really hammers that point home. It details just how "shit for brains" (t***p) fucked up the Covid response and, despite what he claimed in public, knew absolutely nothing. For example, he asked multiple people "they do?" when told masks actually worked to tame the spread of the disease. The book also details how it (t***p) always wanted to go back to relitigate the 2020 election and basically ignore Covid after he lost. And by relitigate, it really means bitch about the election to anyone in earshot instead of focusing on Covid. The book also details how t***p would be told one thing during meetings and then go out in front of cameras and say the exact opposite. 

Then, of course, there was all the crap that surrounded the election, and how t***p was lying about how the election would be fraudulent months before when he was told by almost everyone around him (aside from a few of the lickspittle toadies) that he was going to lose. Some were insisting, even to the bitter end, that t***p was going to win in a landslide despite what the polling showed, which of course t***p maintains happened even to this day, but most people around t***p knew he was going to lose, mainly because of his inept response to Covid.

Overall, the book provides a very detailed look at just how inept, stupid, uncaring, and unqualified t***p and the people around him were. There were a few, such as General Milley, who would stand up to him and say no to him and who hung in there to the bitter end to keep him from doing even more crazy shit than he did. The fact that a lot of people from the administration were willing to tell the truth about, and even badmouth t***p, mostly, anonymously, shows that there were not a lot of profiles in courage in that administration. It really does show that the country dodged a bullet, barely, by getting rid of his ass, and underscores how t***p should never be allowed anywhere near the office of the Presidency again.