Straying off genre again, I just finished listening to the audiobook by Cassidy Hutchinson entitled Enough. Ms. Hutchinson is the narrator for her story about her early life, ongoing family matters, education (the first in her family to attend college), her meteoric rise to power in the Trump White House, and her interactions with lawyers and the Select Committee. She had just turned 25 years of age around the time of her live testimony. If you saw her televised testimony before the January 6 House Committee, then you know most of the important stuff. The new material in her book is her backstory which is worth knowing. Personally, I was impressed with her character in the testimony that I was able to see on television, and the backstory only supports that first impression. Importantly, her early and continuing political beliefs are Republican. Originally, she was enamored with Trump’s charisma, but since her experience of the insurrection and disgust at the political expedience she observed which held sway over higher values, she became more focused on Reagan Republicanism. This current reviewer is not sure what Reagan Republicanism really means in the current age given that even Reagan could not achieve a leadership position in today’s Republican Party. Ms. Hutchinson strikes me as an honest and sincere woman.
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