The Republicans' civil war

Book review of American Carnage On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

Over the past month we learned that the US President Trump — who has taken credit for an economic turnaround that began under Barack Obama and a hot streak by the Boston Red Sox — insists that he predicted the meteoric rise of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez long before anyone else did. He says that he called her “Evita,” comparing her to Eva Perón, Argentina’s populist first lady, ahead of Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise victory in the Democratic primary of 2018.

Last fortnight The Guardian disrupted the publisher’s carefully scheduled rollout of Tim Alberta’s American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil