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In reply to the discussion: So, who has read SHATTERED yet? [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I'm a political junkie, that's probably why I have 80K or so posts on a political message board. So I'm gonna read it.
Reading the book, it doesn't strike me as having a "slant" other than being a fairly standard campaign post-mortem as (apparently) through the off-record eyes of many of the folks directly involved in the thing.
I can tell you from what I've seen so far, no one comes off as blameless- certainly not Bernie Sanders, whom the authors pretty explicitly state did damage to Hillary Clinton during the primaries with his barrage of "untrustworthy" lines of attack. This is an argument I've seen made here on DU, many times.
It seems the case for the over-the-top strenuous objections to this thing is that it actually tries to examine the mistakes that were made.
If one is wedded to nothing except a martyrdom narrative, that the Clinton Campaign was the bestest campaign in human history and couldn't possibly have made even the tiniest strategic error, no, this isn't the book for that.
The book you would want, though, would be excruciatingly boring and more than a little delusional, I think.