Romney A Reckoning

And then the last book was I recently read Romney, A Reckoning by I think McKay Coppins. And I think that when you think about his journey, right, and the journey of many folks who just want to do right by people, who just want to make this place the best version of what America can be, I just think it's super inspiring.

Romney, A Reckoning.

He wrote this biography called Romney, A Reckoning and spent a ton of time with Mitt Romney, really had amazing access to him and his family and his journals and everything else.

Romney, A Reckoning

What I love about this book is that you've written a book about the evolution of Mitt Romney, right? His principled stance, his implicit compromises along the way. But it's also a book about the evolution of the Republican Party.

Romney, A Reckoning, a biography of Mitt Romney

His most recent book, Romney A Reckoning, is a biography of Mitt Romney. We're going to do some Mitt Romney psychoanalysis at the very end.

It's not always that a book about somebody who lost a presidential election and is retiring from the United States Senate makes the bestseller list.

His journey from presidential nominee and standard bearer of the Republican Party to essentially a pariah in his own party within 10 years felt to me like a pretty interesting story

The easy story to write about Romney today is that of the courageous apostate, the lone Republican senator who voted to convict Donald Trump during the first impeachment trial, the throwback to a vision of a party that barely exists today, fiscally conservative, morally upright, constitutionally conscientious.

I think I recognize now my capacity to rationalize decisions that are in my self-interest.

He wrote out a line from the Yeats poem, The Second Coming, that he felt kind of embodied or captured what the Republican Party in the Trump era was. And he wrote, the best lack all conviction while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.

So-called gender identity or trans is actually incredibly regressive.

I'm talking about a political movement that is very well funded and extremely powerful.

no one ever changes sex. It just doesn't happen.

there's a tremendous amount of money behind this movement, which I talk about in Chapter six of the book. I talk about big pharma and what I refer to as the ghouls in the medical establishment who actually are very actively promoting the idea that people can change sex even though they know it's not true.

If one member of one Democrat in the United States Congress stood up and said no men are women, then the whole thing would crumble because it's all built on a house of cards.

So every single human being on the face of the planet is either female or male.

So there's a tremendous amount of money behind this movement, which I talk about in Chapter six of the book. I talk about big pharma and what I refer to as the ghouls in the medical establishment who actually are very actively promoting the idea that people can change sex even though they know it's not true.

So-called gender identity or trans is actually incredibly regressive.

Every single human being on the face of the planet is either female or male, and it doesn't matter if any individual people have an identity that they claim makes them somehow the opposite sex or no sex or some sort of material, some sort of third sex that simply doesn't exist.

When I talk about the lie of gender identity, I'm talking about a political movement that is very well funded and extremely powerful.

No one ever changes sex. It just doesn't happen.

There's a tremendous amount of money behind this movement, which I talk about in Chapter six of the book. I talk about big pharma and what I refer to as the ghouls in the medical establishment who actually are very actively promoting the idea that people can change sex, even though they know it's not true.

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McKay Coppins is a staff writer for The Atlantic and author of Romney, A Reckoning.