Patriots of Two Nations: Why Trump Was Inevitable and What Happens Next

By: Spencer Critchley

Narrated by: Spencer Critchley

Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

America is in a cold civil war between people who see each other as threats to the country - but themselves as patriots. How can that be?

They are patriots of two nations.

In this audiobook, national media commentator and presidential campaigns veteran Spencer Critchley shows why our current hyper-partisan division has been inevitable since the founding of the United States, as has the election of Donald Trump or someone like him.

That's because America is actually two nations occupying the same territory. The two nations have different worldviews: Cultures, values, and ways of understanding reality itself. One nation - the dominant one - is descended from the Enlightenment, and the establishment of reason as the ultimate source of authority. But the other is nation descended from the Counter-Enlightenment, and it has never stopped believing in faith, subjectivity, ethnic identity, and tradition.

Because the enlightenment worldview is so dominant, the counter-enlightenment largely has been forgotten by history. But as Critchley reveals, in many ways it's more active now than ever.

Uniting the two nations will require that they finally see and understand their different realities. This audiobook shows how we might still be able to make that happen - and why we must, if democracy is to survive.

Spencer Critchley is a writer, producer, and communications consultant with experience in journalism, film, digital media, public relations, advertising, and music. He is the Managing Partner of communications consulting agency Boots Road Group.

He has been interviewed or quoted by ABC News, The AP, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Fox News, The Hill, The LA Times, NPR, Sky News (UK), USA Today, and others.

As a consultant, he has worked for both of Barack Obama's presidential campaigns, former Congressman Sam Farr, the US Department of Labor, the University of California at Berkeley, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and many others.

©2020 David Spencer Critchley (P)2020 David Spencer Critchley

Informative Read

There were a lot of comments made in this book that caused me to think. This was the reason I got this book in the first place. The author does make a good case, even though at time he shows his own bias. I bought this book initially as an audio book but have purchased the Kindle version so i can go back and more closely examine some of it, not to tear it down but to be able to chart the cause and effect of the differences between the sides. I have rwcommended this book to friends regardless of their political leanings, primarily because it does a good job of explaining why both sides think the othe is not only wrong, but dangerous.

too wordy

The author seems to be trying.to impress the reader with his knowledge of all the literature he read. Hos point becomes lost in the endless verbiage.