Last Chance to Save American Democracy

Republicans Will Permanently Take Power in the 2022-2024 Elections Unless Democrats Follow This Plan

De: Haven Scott McVarish

Narrado por: Larry Herron

How Democrats can win the 2020 decade by saving democracy in 2021

Despite four awful years with Trump as president, Democrats were barely able to defeat him in the 2020 elections. They lost seats in the House, lost winnable races in the Senate, and even lost a handful of state legislatures.

How can this be?

For that matter, how did Trump win in 2016, and why did Republicans control Congress for almost the entire 2010 decade despite zero accomplishments?

In Last Chance to Save American Democracy, political strategist Haven Scott McVarish takes us through the intentional dismantling of democracy begun by Republican party funders after Obama's landslide in 2008. These funders and their willing Republican servants weaponized unlimited dark money, extreme gerrymandering, voter suppression, and diversionary propaganda to make it impossible for Democrats to effectively govern or win a majority. Only Trump’s massive unpopularity allowed Democrats to barely win the trifecta in the 2020 elections.

In this masterful and compelling political analysis, McVarish unveils a set of 12 comprehensive solutions for our besieged democracy, along with an organizing plan to get these solutions into law. McVarish shows Democrats exactly how they must fix the filibuster, reform the Supreme Court, revise the Electoral College and Congress to provide fair representation, and equalize voters’ influence through campaign finance reform, to name a few, all without needing constitutional amendments.

Defeating Trump and McConnell in 2020 is only the first step. Unless Democrats make the necessary changes in a very short window of opportunity in 2021, the GOP’s decade-long assault on our democracy will give Republicans permanent control of our government within the next two elections, and we will lose our democracy forever.

You don't have to feel frustrated and scared.

This blueprint lays out a clear path for us to compel Democrats to build a lasting and more secure democracy in 2021 before it's too late.

©2020 Haven Scott McVarish (P)2020 Haven Scott McVarish

Terrific reading of a terrific book

I've written many book reviews on Amazon before but this is the first Audible review that I'm writing. This audiobook is that good. I haven't finished listening to the whole thing yet (though I've finished reading the printed version of the book), but I wanted to write a review now before I forgot.

The reason I bought the audio version of this book even though I already have the printed version is so I could listen to it while cooking, cleaning, on the train (yes, of course I wear a mask), etc., to review the parts I've already read so as to better absorb and remember the key points. And wow. Audiobook reader Larry Herron takes Haven Scott McVarish's superb and important book and gives it the performance it deserves. Herron has a naturally pleasing, charismatic voice that's clear and easy to understand. His reading speed and pacing are perfect. Moreover, he gives the text LIFE, which you'd think should be a basic thing for all audiobooks, but some audiobooks I've listened to before sounded like they were read by that boring teacher from the 80s movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' ("Anyone, anyone?"). Herron infuses the text with emotion, but without overdoing it, and emphasizes all the key passages and words in just the right way. Seriously, if I ever get an audiobook published I want Herron to read it.

The only other non-fiction audiobook performance I currently love as much as this one is 'A Promised Land' written and read by Barack Obama but I'm not even going to bother writing a review for that guy (like he doesn't already have enough reviews, LOL).

Re: the actual book itself, I've already written a review on Amazon about it so I won't repeat everything, but in a nutshell I think it's one of the most important political books that any engaged American citizen can read right now.

McVarish's words and Herron's voice are the perfect combination. 5 stars all the way.