"Check out the brilliant Ilana Mercer's fascinating book, The Trump Revolution."--A. J. DELGADO, Trump/Pence Campaign Senior Advisor and Surrogate, conservative commentator & columnist, attorney & Harvard Law alum, dog-welfare fanatic, proud Latina.
"A timely and remarkable book."
--LESLIE JONES, Ph.D., editor at
Quarterly Review, the celebrated British journal founded in 1809 by Walter Scott, Robert Southey and George Canning.
"The passionate and stunningly articulate Word Warrior Ilana Mercer explains why Donald Trump has given new hope to millions of Americans demeaned,disparaged and discarded by elites who comprise 'the New York-Washington axis of power.' She truly understands why Trump's message is resonating with millions of frustrated, disenfranchised citizens, and gives voice to their gut-level angst: 'For now, it's safe to say Donald J. Trump is breaking stuff that needs breaking.'"--WILLIAM B. SCOTT, novelist, consultant, retired Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief for Aviation Week & Space Technology, former flight test engineer, recipient of 17 editorial awards for excellence.
"Mercer is no fan of Obama or The 'W' who came before him, but she thinks that 'Trump is likely the best Americans can hope for.' She's 'not necessarily for the policies of Trump, but for the process of Trump.' This, in itself, is the most interesting of her arguments in a well-constructed book of essays that builds the case for that process. ... [I]t is a testament to Mercer's muscular writing and clever reasoning that I was able to read her book in a single sitting. That is a compliment in and of itself.--CHRIS MATTHEW SCIABARRA, Ph.D., author of Total Freedom: Toward A Dialectical Libertarianism
"Regardless of where you stand on Trump, everything Ilana Mercer writes is worth reading. One of the great writers of our time."
--JAMES OSTROWSKI, libertarian author, lawyer, theorist, activist, and, according to
Murray N. Rothbard, "One of the finest people in the libertarian movement."
"Beating the Hillary Hate Brigades (HHB) to the punch with what appears to be the first book published about the political rise of Donald Trump, Ilana Mercer has written an insightful ... history of the ascendancy of' The Donald.' .... The HHB in the media will undoubtedly do its best to rewrite history (i.e., lie) when it comes to how Donald Trump repeatedly exposed them as mostly a bunch of frauds,imposters, and biased political hacks during the primary campaign season.
The Trump Revolution sets the record straight on all of this, and more, in thirty-one short chapters, and will be a valuable--and entertaining--fact-check resource. ...'"
--THOMAS J. DILORENZO, professor of economics, Loyola College, Maryland, author of the best-seller
The Problem With Socialism. (LRC.com)
"In
The Trump Revolution, Mercer gets at precisely what I would like people to understand relative to the Trump phenom. 'Donald J. Trump is smashing an enmeshed political spoils system to bits,' she writes, and indeed, this system and the necrotizing societal parasites who benefit from it deserve, in the moral sense, to be smashed, and must be neutralized ... Perhaps it is the scary-smart Mercer's status as a non-conservative ideologue, or as a non-native to America, that made her uniquely qualified to write this book."
--ERIK RUSH, syndicated columnist, author of
Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal-America's Racial Obsession.
"Trump
indeed
has
proven
to be
a
force of
nature.
Yet
so
too
is
Ilana Mercer.
The Trump Revolution is
the
first
libertarian
defense
of
the
Trump
Process. Mercer,
being
as
much
an
enemy
of
neoconservative
Republicans
as
she
is
of
leftist
Democrats,
treats
audiences
of
all
political
persuasions
to
a
work
that
is
above
suspicion.
The Trump Revolution is
especially
suited
for
libertarian
and
conservative-leaning
Trump
skeptics.
Mercer,
a
paleolibertarian--i.e.
a
libertarian
who
doesn't
live
in
a
pseudo-Platonic
dream
world
of
abstractions--is
as
concrete
as
can
be
within
her
opening
statement,
appropriately
subtitled:
'Welcome
to
the
Post-Constitutional
Jungle.'
As
Mercer
reminds
us,
in
a
post-Constitutional
jungle,
'a
liberty-lover's
best
hope
is
to
see
the
legacy
of
the
dictator
who
went
before
overturned
for
a
period
of
time.'
Over
the
span
of
252
pages,
with
an
astuteness
that
escapes
most
contemporary
popular
writers
whose
partisanship
binds
them
to
stock
phrases
and
crusty
categories,
Mercer
reveals
once
more
her
originality
as
an
analyst
to
'deconstruct'
how
Trump
has
waged
a
campaign
against
sacred
cows,
'progressive'
and
'conservative'
alike.
--JACK KERWICK, Ph.D.,
ethicist,
political
philosopher,
columnist
at
Townhall.com
&
FrontPage
Magazine,
author,
The American Offensive: Dispatches from the Front.
"The Trump Revolution offers a blistering attack on the pseudo-conservative credentials of Donald Trump's 'conservative' opponents. In this pungently written study, paleolibertarian commentator Ilana Mercer stresses the close connection between the rise of the populist Right in the US and the clumsy behavior of neoconservative mediocrities."--PAUL GOTTFRIED, Ph.D., retired professor of Humanities, Elizabethtown College, PA, author of After Liberalism, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt, The Strange Death of Marxism, Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America.
“… [T]he best extended analysis yet published of the Trump phenomenon. … I admit to being green with envy at Mercer’s Menckenesque ability to coin memorable phrases describing the empowered fools of our time. Does any contemporary writer do it better? Mercer on the media: ‘news nitworks,’ the ‘idiot’s lantern,’ ‘unsharpened pencil,’ ‘tele-tarts,’ a ‘circle jerk of power brokers,’ ‘one-trick donkeys,’ ‘celebrated mediocrities,’ ‘another banal bloviator,’ the ‘cable commentariat as a cog in the corpulent D.C. fleshpot.’”—DR. CLYDE N. WILSON, retired professor of history, University of South Carolina, editor of The Papers of John C. Calhoun, author of numerous books, including Carolina Cavalier: The Life and Mind of James Johnston Pettigrew and Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture. (Chronicles Magazine, “Sounding The Trump,” October 2016.) *****
--DR. CLYDE N. WILSON"Ilana Mercer was one of Mr. Trump's earliest and most vocal and consistent supporters. He's now President-elect Trump, and Ilana was right all along. Ilana has shown us the value of ... not paying attention to the 'sensible' people, and following her conscience. She now finds herself on the winning side of history. There is a lesson in that for us all. When the history is written of these extraordinary times, Ilana will have her page. She has certainly deserved it."--SEAN GABB, Ph.D., Director Of The British Libertarian Alliance, prodigious libertarian writer and scholar. (The Libertarian Alliance, "God Bless Ilana," November 9, 2016.)
From the Inside Flap
"Mercer spares not a syllable before she sets the stage for her support of the Trump 'Process,' exactly one and the same framework of reality-anchored suppositions that has informed this Jewish South African's paleolibertarian worldview for decades. Unlike libertarian abstractionists (who she not so affectionately describes as promoting 'libertarianism-lite'), Mercer refuses to ground her perspective in, say, radically ahistorical idealizations of the Constitution (a federalist scheme of government that ... began suffering abuse as early on as Washington's second administration). [I]t's been quite some time since the Constitution has been anything much more than a "deadletter." 'The gist of it: Jeffersonian constitutional thought is no longer in the Constitution; it's revival unlikely.' It's been slayed by a host of de facto dictators from both national parties. And, as Mercer reminds us, in a post-Constitutional crisis, 'a liberty-lover's best hope is to see the legacy of the dictator who went before overturned for a period of time."--JACK KERWICK, Ph.D., ethicist, political philosopher, columnist at Townhall.com & FrontPage Magazine, author, The American Offensive: Dispatches from the Front.
About the Author
ILANA MERCER is the author of "The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed" (June, 2016) and the pathbreaking "Into The Cannibal's Pot: Lessons For America From Post-Apartheid South Africa" (2011). She has been writing a popular, weekly, paleolibertarian column--begun in Canada--since 1999. Ilana's online homes are ilanamercer.com & barelyablog.com. Follow her Twitter: twitter.com/IlanaMercer
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