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Live Free or Die: America (And the World) on the Brink - Vivamus Vel Libero Perit Americae
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America’s top-rated cable news host offers his first book in over ten a look at America’s fight against those who would reverse our tradition of freedom.
America is great for a reason. Built on principles of freedom, rugged individualism, and self-sufficiency, no country has ever accumulated more power and wealth, abused it less, or used that power more to advance the human condition.
And yet, as America blossomed, leftwing radicalism and resentment festered beneath the surface, threatening to undermine democracy in the form of social justice warriors, the deep state, and compromised institutions like academia and the mainstream media.
With the Democratic victory in 2020, we are now at risk for a big step toward full-blown socialism along with the economic dysfunction and social strife that are its hallmarks. With radical Democrats demanding the Green New Deal, socialized medicine, abortion on demand, open borders, abolishing the Electoral College, packing the Supreme Court, and an end to free speech, our great nation will be fundamentally transformed beyond recognition.
Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is but one generation away from extinction,” and his words have never rung truer. In Live Free or Die, Sean demonstrates why now is an All Hands on Deck moment to save the Republic.
America’s top-rated cable news host offers his first book in over ten a look at America’s fight against those who would reverse our tradition of freedom.
America is great for a reason. Built on principles of freedom, rugged individualism, and self-sufficiency, no country has ever accumulated more power and wealth, abused it less, or used that power more to advance the human condition.
And yet, as America blossomed, leftwing radicalism and resentment festered beneath the surface, threatening to undermine democracy in the form of social justice warriors, the deep state, and compromised institutions like academia and the mainstream media.
With the Democratic victory in 2020, we are now at risk for a big step toward full-blown socialism along with the economic dysfunction and social strife that are its hallmarks. With radical Democrats demanding the Green New Deal, socialized medicine, abortion on demand, open borders, abolishing the Electoral College, packing the Supreme Court, and an end to free speech, our great nation will be fundamentally transformed beyond recognition.
Ronald Reagan once said, “Freedom is but one generation away from extinction,” and his words have never rung truer. In Live Free or Die, Sean demonstrates why now is an All Hands on Deck moment to save the Republic.
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First published August 4, 2020
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Sean Hannity
30 books130 followersAmerican radio/television host, author, and neoconservative political commentator. Also he has his own datingnetwork called "Hannidate" for gay and straight conservatives.
Hannity is a co-host of Hannity & Colmes in which he represents the conservative point of view. Also he runs an conservative radio talk show.
Hannity is a co-host of Hannity & Colmes in which he represents the conservative point of view. Also he runs an conservative radio talk show.
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August 5, 2020
Although he prattles on a bit, the essence of what he says is spot on. We get the choice at the ballot box, to Live Free or be destroyed. Just look at Portland, Seattle and Chicago.
August 4, 2020
The book is very biased and misleading. Once you start reading, the author wastes no time bending the truth. See this, for example: “…among the reasons they elected Donald Trump to deflate the Deep State and turn back the tide of this leftist juggernaut.”
First of all, Donald Trump did not get the most votes in the last election. Secondly, I just think it’s weird that a cursory search through the author’s books and Fox News show transcripts will reveal that the author literally never used the term “the Deep State” before March 2017, yet he now opens his books saying voters “elected Donald Trump to deflate the Deep State.” Was that what they were doing?! Before it became Hannity’s favorite buzzword, the “Deep State” was popularized by Mike Lofgren, who wrote a pretty good book about it titled “The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government”; it was not a conspiracy theory, but ever since pro-Trump propagandists suddenly fell in love with the term (because of its potential to excite the imaginations of right-wing voters, who were already big fans of Alex Jones and previously Glenn Beck), it’s been transformed into one, and Mike Lofgren has expressed his dismay over the fact that people like Sean Hannity have warped it beyond recognition. I can picture how Lofgren might be particularly incensed by Hannity doing it because Lofgren writes so much about how national security has been used an excuse for the government to break all the rules, and Hannity was notorious for being so cavalier about defending the Bush administration on the issue of torture that he once agreed to be waterboarded for charity. (Over a decade has passed and he still has not followed through.) So anyway, right-wingers co-opting Lofgren’s concept is why you’ve suddenly got right-wing pundits saying things like, Err yeah, the Deep State, that thing I’ve never mentioned before 2017, that’s what the top issue for voters was! It’s a bit surreal to see someone who appears on the television news every weeknight peddling this InfoWars-level nonsense and rewriting history in this book!
On the other hand, maybe he just doesn’t know history. He certainly can’t seem to remember the last several months correctly; for example, says: “. . . it’s possible Joe Biden will suddenly moderate his message after winning the party primaries. However, he did the opposite to win the Democrat nomination over Bernie Sanders. It’ll be nearly impossible for Biden to walk back his newfound radicalism.”
What?! I’m pretty sure that didn’t happen. The author makes it sound like Biden had to become Bernie to win. That would be very cool if it were true because Bernie was the best candidate, but I can’t help but wonder if maybe he wrote one version of this paragraph just in case Bernie ended up winning and another in case Biden ended up winning so that the correct version could be chosen for the final version of the manuscript, and then he didn’t bother to fix the details because people are used to getting fake news from Hannity anyway, so it’s no big deal if it isn’t totally accurate. I’m personally not a big fan of fake news though so I think that’s one of the major flaws of this book, because it’s so full of it.
There’s so much conspiratorial nonsense in this book. The author argues that Barack Obama must have been a secret radical because the nation has become more liberal since he was first elected president. This is ridiculous logic that gets the causal relationship totally reversed; the fact is, the electorate is getting more left-wing. Basically only old people are big fans of the Republican Party; there is nothing about what Republicans believe that appeals to young voters (some Republicans remain unfazed by this because they believe in the myth that voters will get more conservative with age, but political science totally proves that wrong), and even if there were, consider the fact that, if you are a young voter, every major national crisis that has occurred so far has occurred under a Republican president: the September 11th terrorist attacks, the 2008 financial crisis, the coronavirus pandemic (and the currently mostly Republican government’s totally failed response), the concomitant economic collapse, etc. Add that to the fact that youth support for Democrats was already trending upwards even before Barack Obama was elected. Clearly this idea that electing Republicans will do anything to stop the trend is just ridiculous.
Also, not content to just make fake news, the author also makes fake history. For example, he writes that the United States “paid the price for world freedom by defeating fascism, Nazism, communism, and Imperial Japan,” which is a cartoonish version of history that is just amazingly false. First of all, Russia made far more sacrifices and really deserves more credit for the victory on the Western front, where the U.S. barely even helped until the final years of the war because going to war against Hitler was politically unpopular among right-wingers such as Charles Lindbergh and other members of the notoriously anti-Semitic America First Committee. (“America First”—where have I heard that before?!) We also did not defeat communism in any sense of the word; we lost in Vietnam, we lost in Cuba (e.g., Bay of Pigs invasion, Operation Mongoose, etc.), we only won the space race because we decided winning the space race meant being the first to get to the moon (Russia was actually the first to do everything else, and we didn’t even care about going into space until we saw Russia doing it (even though we’re constantly told communism and socialism stifle innovation and technological progress, blah blah blah—now we don’t even care about going into space anymore because we couldn’t figure out how to use it to make money or blow other countries up), etc. We also did not fight Japan for freedom; the United States was openly favorable to Japan in the Russo-Japanese War and the annexation of Korea. Also, why is Imperial Japan the only Imperial Whatever that was bad? If we really cared about freedom, we would’ve invaded England, because they had the biggest empire and they definitely were not nice to India, China, or really anyone else in the world. So that proves the author is totally wrong about everything.
Another weird thing about this book is that the author seems to sort of obsessively focus on the youngest woman in the 435-person legislative body known as the House of Representatives (for all the readers who don’t know about that). I know AOC is very cool and hopefully going to be President some day, but her vote is just one of 435 so it’s just weird how the author mentions her name over 30 times in some form (usually as “AOC” but occasionally as “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”), yet he does not name most other members of the House of Representatives even once! I guess maybe it would be logical if the author were a fan of her, but actually he’s just one of her haters, and he really needs to scrape the bottom of the barrel for reasons to keep hating, like her “flippant” tweet about something said by Joe Lieberman—one of the worst living non-Republican ex-senators, known for helping Republicans to sabotage the Affordable Care Act so that the U.S. healthcare system could continue to be number one at being the worst. Also, the author complains about Rashida Tlaib because she used a bad word once, which is just unconscionable, and I guess that’s why, out of all the pundits on TV, he’s probably the biggest brownnoser of noted profanity non-user Donald Trump.
The only reason to read this book is if you want to vote for Donald Trump but the moral part of your brain that does not want millions to die from coronavirus and the coming economic depression is making you have second thoughts about voting for him. I do not think the book is really persuasive at all though because anyone could totally debunk every argument in the book!
First of all, Donald Trump did not get the most votes in the last election. Secondly, I just think it’s weird that a cursory search through the author’s books and Fox News show transcripts will reveal that the author literally never used the term “the Deep State” before March 2017, yet he now opens his books saying voters “elected Donald Trump to deflate the Deep State.” Was that what they were doing?! Before it became Hannity’s favorite buzzword, the “Deep State” was popularized by Mike Lofgren, who wrote a pretty good book about it titled “The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government”; it was not a conspiracy theory, but ever since pro-Trump propagandists suddenly fell in love with the term (because of its potential to excite the imaginations of right-wing voters, who were already big fans of Alex Jones and previously Glenn Beck), it’s been transformed into one, and Mike Lofgren has expressed his dismay over the fact that people like Sean Hannity have warped it beyond recognition. I can picture how Lofgren might be particularly incensed by Hannity doing it because Lofgren writes so much about how national security has been used an excuse for the government to break all the rules, and Hannity was notorious for being so cavalier about defending the Bush administration on the issue of torture that he once agreed to be waterboarded for charity. (Over a decade has passed and he still has not followed through.) So anyway, right-wingers co-opting Lofgren’s concept is why you’ve suddenly got right-wing pundits saying things like, Err yeah, the Deep State, that thing I’ve never mentioned before 2017, that’s what the top issue for voters was! It’s a bit surreal to see someone who appears on the television news every weeknight peddling this InfoWars-level nonsense and rewriting history in this book!
On the other hand, maybe he just doesn’t know history. He certainly can’t seem to remember the last several months correctly; for example, says: “. . . it’s possible Joe Biden will suddenly moderate his message after winning the party primaries. However, he did the opposite to win the Democrat nomination over Bernie Sanders. It’ll be nearly impossible for Biden to walk back his newfound radicalism.”
What?! I’m pretty sure that didn’t happen. The author makes it sound like Biden had to become Bernie to win. That would be very cool if it were true because Bernie was the best candidate, but I can’t help but wonder if maybe he wrote one version of this paragraph just in case Bernie ended up winning and another in case Biden ended up winning so that the correct version could be chosen for the final version of the manuscript, and then he didn’t bother to fix the details because people are used to getting fake news from Hannity anyway, so it’s no big deal if it isn’t totally accurate. I’m personally not a big fan of fake news though so I think that’s one of the major flaws of this book, because it’s so full of it.
There’s so much conspiratorial nonsense in this book. The author argues that Barack Obama must have been a secret radical because the nation has become more liberal since he was first elected president. This is ridiculous logic that gets the causal relationship totally reversed; the fact is, the electorate is getting more left-wing. Basically only old people are big fans of the Republican Party; there is nothing about what Republicans believe that appeals to young voters (some Republicans remain unfazed by this because they believe in the myth that voters will get more conservative with age, but political science totally proves that wrong), and even if there were, consider the fact that, if you are a young voter, every major national crisis that has occurred so far has occurred under a Republican president: the September 11th terrorist attacks, the 2008 financial crisis, the coronavirus pandemic (and the currently mostly Republican government’s totally failed response), the concomitant economic collapse, etc. Add that to the fact that youth support for Democrats was already trending upwards even before Barack Obama was elected. Clearly this idea that electing Republicans will do anything to stop the trend is just ridiculous.
Also, not content to just make fake news, the author also makes fake history. For example, he writes that the United States “paid the price for world freedom by defeating fascism, Nazism, communism, and Imperial Japan,” which is a cartoonish version of history that is just amazingly false. First of all, Russia made far more sacrifices and really deserves more credit for the victory on the Western front, where the U.S. barely even helped until the final years of the war because going to war against Hitler was politically unpopular among right-wingers such as Charles Lindbergh and other members of the notoriously anti-Semitic America First Committee. (“America First”—where have I heard that before?!) We also did not defeat communism in any sense of the word; we lost in Vietnam, we lost in Cuba (e.g., Bay of Pigs invasion, Operation Mongoose, etc.), we only won the space race because we decided winning the space race meant being the first to get to the moon (Russia was actually the first to do everything else, and we didn’t even care about going into space until we saw Russia doing it (even though we’re constantly told communism and socialism stifle innovation and technological progress, blah blah blah—now we don’t even care about going into space anymore because we couldn’t figure out how to use it to make money or blow other countries up), etc. We also did not fight Japan for freedom; the United States was openly favorable to Japan in the Russo-Japanese War and the annexation of Korea. Also, why is Imperial Japan the only Imperial Whatever that was bad? If we really cared about freedom, we would’ve invaded England, because they had the biggest empire and they definitely were not nice to India, China, or really anyone else in the world. So that proves the author is totally wrong about everything.
Another weird thing about this book is that the author seems to sort of obsessively focus on the youngest woman in the 435-person legislative body known as the House of Representatives (for all the readers who don’t know about that). I know AOC is very cool and hopefully going to be President some day, but her vote is just one of 435 so it’s just weird how the author mentions her name over 30 times in some form (usually as “AOC” but occasionally as “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”), yet he does not name most other members of the House of Representatives even once! I guess maybe it would be logical if the author were a fan of her, but actually he’s just one of her haters, and he really needs to scrape the bottom of the barrel for reasons to keep hating, like her “flippant” tweet about something said by Joe Lieberman—one of the worst living non-Republican ex-senators, known for helping Republicans to sabotage the Affordable Care Act so that the U.S. healthcare system could continue to be number one at being the worst. Also, the author complains about Rashida Tlaib because she used a bad word once, which is just unconscionable, and I guess that’s why, out of all the pundits on TV, he’s probably the biggest brownnoser of noted profanity non-user Donald Trump.
The only reason to read this book is if you want to vote for Donald Trump but the moral part of your brain that does not want millions to die from coronavirus and the coming economic depression is making you have second thoughts about voting for him. I do not think the book is really persuasive at all though because anyone could totally debunk every argument in the book!
August 13, 2020
As a Canadian , I try to keep abreast as to what people are thinking and were they get their ideas. As a spectator to the American experiment , this book is a historical document to showcase the utter lack of critical thought and quite frankly a strange demand for clear cut propaganda. This book is for those that want to be reassured by the fox News fear machine in print. If someone is this dense not see past the spin and enjoy this book , you know who you are and I suppose you will enjoy it. So terrible book from a position of critical thinking but great if you are a dim witted fear monger. I should also add that your left wing is also out to lunch. The world is watching you guys fall apart.
August 7, 2020
Outstanding book; a history lesson about the greatest country on earth. Fodder & inspiration for continuing to share the gospel of American exceptionalism. I highly recommend, especially to independents and Democrats who love our country.
August 12, 2020
The author lays out an excellent case why re-electing Trump is a WIN for the country. That the democratic (leftist) vision for this country isn't just bad, it's post America, unrecognizable to the values of our founding. That at the end of the "progressive" rainbow isn't an economically equal pot of gold, but a bread line......if we're lucky, and certain equal misery for sure. A civilization where individual rights are gone and the "collective" good, will be decided more and more by bureaucratic overlords. I know it sounds far fetched, but if we were to go back to 1990 and explain 2020 we would sound totally far fetched. (a land of 71 genders, "men" having babies and having periods, marriage redefined, common core math, college kids embracing socialism, safe spaces, statues being toppled, math and grammar deemed racist, etc etc etc.)
My favorite part of the book was regarding the Russian Collusion Myth and the Ukrainian impeachment hoax. The left has literally tried twice to unseat a freely and fairly elected POTUS through the most deceptive means possible. On the flipside incidents like these have exposed much of the media as journalistically compromised and revealed a deep state with a dark agenda. Simply put America first might as well be like sunlight for vampires.
This book is worth your time and belongs with a recent list of great books making a similar case for President Trump's re-election and America first outlook vs. the dark vision of where the left wants to take this country.
Further reading recommendation:
"Guilty by Reason of Insanity" by David Limbaugh
My favorite part of the book was regarding the Russian Collusion Myth and the Ukrainian impeachment hoax. The left has literally tried twice to unseat a freely and fairly elected POTUS through the most deceptive means possible. On the flipside incidents like these have exposed much of the media as journalistically compromised and revealed a deep state with a dark agenda. Simply put America first might as well be like sunlight for vampires.
This book is worth your time and belongs with a recent list of great books making a similar case for President Trump's re-election and America first outlook vs. the dark vision of where the left wants to take this country.
Further reading recommendation:
"Guilty by Reason of Insanity" by David Limbaugh
September 30, 2020
Full and immediate disclosure that I’m Australian. I’ll remain as far below the equator to avoid the ‘Land of the Free’ as long as I can, thank you very much.
Hi. It’s me, Esther. Making myself suffer through this diatribe of a book because I ‘don’t want to live in an echo chamber’ and ‘believe in educating myself on both sides’. These are silly tenets to hold dear in the wake of reading this, I am aware. I was going to itemise every single point made in this book and the level of their incredulity, but funnily enough, I have a life, so I left off. However, for your perusal, I include some standouts:
1. Why is it, when discussing how America is wonderful and is built on the back of freedom and not racism, does he not discuss Native Americans? Are those genocides and horrific maltreatments just ignored? The focus on African Americans and slavery is pertinent, and Hannity preempted that being raised- but radio silence on the Indigenous Peoples of America.
2. Medicare for all will ruin your country! Take it from me, in a country who has had Medicare for all since the 70s. We’re completely ruined. Look how ruined we are. I had my appendix out a while back and it didn’t cost me the price of a small mortgage. How horrific for me. Medicare for all would definitely destroy you, I’m sure.
3. As for gun laws having no impact, we have very few mass shootings every decade. Port Arthur, the precipitating event for our gun laws, is the largest in ‘recent’ memory. America had more than one every single day- that is, until the schools closed due to the rampant pandemic that has been spectacularly mismanaged by the government. Funny that. Hannity says it’s all filtered into stabbings and the like- strangely enough, it’s harder to stab over 30 people in seconds than it is to shoot them. Simple maths.
4. Speaking of pandemics- Hannity states Trump has handled the matter spectacularly. How are those mass graves because you had no more room for the dead working out for you? The drinking of bleach? The reliance on a drug proven to have no impact on the virus? All of that going well?
5. The incredible reach into the conspiracy that is the Deep State and the like. And you’re still on emails? When the current administration has been using their own private server? Oy.
6. ‘Trump is the only way we’ll save ourselves from a horrific future’. Honestly, my guy, at this point, you’d get a better president from using the Cheeto dust you blew off Trump and sculpting it into an effigy of Lincoln. There’s little left for you in terms of good presidential options, but I can tell you that dear Donnie probably ain’t it. The Cheeto dust has probably paid more in income tax as well over the last few years.
I just recommend that perhaps if any individual attached to the present administration wants to present their case, they perhaps don’t rely on so many facts that are demonstrably false. But what do I know? I’m just chilling here in my weaponless country, minding my own damn business, and knowing that if I need to be rushed to hospital in the middle of the night I won’t need a small loan of a million dollars to have it handled. What a terrible life I lead.
Hi. It’s me, Esther. Making myself suffer through this diatribe of a book because I ‘don’t want to live in an echo chamber’ and ‘believe in educating myself on both sides’. These are silly tenets to hold dear in the wake of reading this, I am aware. I was going to itemise every single point made in this book and the level of their incredulity, but funnily enough, I have a life, so I left off. However, for your perusal, I include some standouts:
1. Why is it, when discussing how America is wonderful and is built on the back of freedom and not racism, does he not discuss Native Americans? Are those genocides and horrific maltreatments just ignored? The focus on African Americans and slavery is pertinent, and Hannity preempted that being raised- but radio silence on the Indigenous Peoples of America.
2. Medicare for all will ruin your country! Take it from me, in a country who has had Medicare for all since the 70s. We’re completely ruined. Look how ruined we are. I had my appendix out a while back and it didn’t cost me the price of a small mortgage. How horrific for me. Medicare for all would definitely destroy you, I’m sure.
3. As for gun laws having no impact, we have very few mass shootings every decade. Port Arthur, the precipitating event for our gun laws, is the largest in ‘recent’ memory. America had more than one every single day- that is, until the schools closed due to the rampant pandemic that has been spectacularly mismanaged by the government. Funny that. Hannity says it’s all filtered into stabbings and the like- strangely enough, it’s harder to stab over 30 people in seconds than it is to shoot them. Simple maths.
4. Speaking of pandemics- Hannity states Trump has handled the matter spectacularly. How are those mass graves because you had no more room for the dead working out for you? The drinking of bleach? The reliance on a drug proven to have no impact on the virus? All of that going well?
5. The incredible reach into the conspiracy that is the Deep State and the like. And you’re still on emails? When the current administration has been using their own private server? Oy.
6. ‘Trump is the only way we’ll save ourselves from a horrific future’. Honestly, my guy, at this point, you’d get a better president from using the Cheeto dust you blew off Trump and sculpting it into an effigy of Lincoln. There’s little left for you in terms of good presidential options, but I can tell you that dear Donnie probably ain’t it. The Cheeto dust has probably paid more in income tax as well over the last few years.
I just recommend that perhaps if any individual attached to the present administration wants to present their case, they perhaps don’t rely on so many facts that are demonstrably false. But what do I know? I’m just chilling here in my weaponless country, minding my own damn business, and knowing that if I need to be rushed to hospital in the middle of the night I won’t need a small loan of a million dollars to have it handled. What a terrible life I lead.
December 2, 2020
A Summary of His Show.
2 1/2 Stars
I am placing this Sean Hannity book firmly in the OK category. I don’t watch the show regularly but the few times I have seen it, I judge the content is no different than from what’s in the book.
I don’t know if his purpose is to try to convert people to his way to make statements or just sell books. Therefore I didn’t see anything really new in the book and such is my rating.
I am a Democrat who became a Republican and is now a hard and fast independent. So, I really didn’t have any bias towards reading this book but I had hope for new ideas.
Because there were no new ideas I can’t recommend this book.
2 1/2 Stars
I am placing this Sean Hannity book firmly in the OK category. I don’t watch the show regularly but the few times I have seen it, I judge the content is no different than from what’s in the book.
I don’t know if his purpose is to try to convert people to his way to make statements or just sell books. Therefore I didn’t see anything really new in the book and such is my rating.
I am a Democrat who became a Republican and is now a hard and fast independent. So, I really didn’t have any bias towards reading this book but I had hope for new ideas.
Because there were no new ideas I can’t recommend this book.
August 12, 2020
Even before I began reading this, I knew it was going to be inevitably biased. Sean Hannity is a fervent Trump-supporter, and anyone who watches his show knows that he will defend Trump regardless of circumstances. Having said that, I actually really enjoyed this book. Putting aside the tremendous bias, almost 50 pages are dedicated solely to citations, making many of his points very credible. Some chapters felt a bit redundant, same old "attacks" on the Democratic left. But, for his first chapters on American history and the chapter on Socialism, I was actually quite enlightened. Finally, his last chapters on the GOOD things Donald Trump has done for our country made me realize that there is so much MORE to the Trump administration than what we see in the news every day. There are so many policies, bills, executive orders, etc that are implemented day by day, and many are good positive things. It's stupid to demonize our whole country's administration for the policies they have implemented, when (if you truly look), there are so many ones that have fostered economic growth and inclusivity. We just don't hear about them. I'm by no means saying Trump is an angel, but I do consider it important to inform oneself from both sides, and then form your own opinions.
August 10, 2020
Get ready to die if your leaders ask you to. Hannity needs that, or what else would he report on?
August 13, 2020
Very one-sided bit of drivel I’ve read in a long time.
August 13, 2020
Grand Slam, Sean!
Wow! What a book! Impressively written and supported with a multitude of facts. I could not believe the number of countries who tried socialism and failed. We don’t want our country ruined! Everyone should read this book before voting this coming November. Excellent job, Sean!
Wow! What a book! Impressively written and supported with a multitude of facts. I could not believe the number of countries who tried socialism and failed. We don’t want our country ruined! Everyone should read this book before voting this coming November. Excellent job, Sean!
August 27, 2020
I have been reading books from both sides of the political debate of late. This book has history, information I had not heard on national news(fact checked to see if real), things that have been accomplished that have not heard of before, time line regarding Trumps actions regarding Covid. I recommend the read to anyone interested in learning...reads pretty easily.
November 10, 2020
There was surprisingly a lot of information here. It’s concise, no words wasted, with very smooth writing, although he is fond of sentence fragments. The pages turned quickly. It was very accessible. I was kind of hoping for a broader look at the assault on liberty. This book is more focused on current events like the 2020 election, so I expect parts of it will become dated quickly.
It’s very bold and unapologetic about calling out socialists and defending liberty. The typical narrow-minded AOC-type leftist will not understand it and will be very offended by it.
The book covers a history of the country’s founding, the radical left’s goals, and a history of socialism, which is fashionable among the young for some reason. Next is a look at the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and the partisan-driven impeachment debacle, both with zero evidence of wrongdoing.
Then Hannity discusses the media’s sycophantic devotion to the left, obsessive hatred of Trump, and their attack on free speech. Next is a quick run-down of all of Trump’s accomplishments: tax cuts for the middle class and small businesses; record GDP that Obama never came close to seeing; record unemployment, especially for minorities, fewer people on welfare, and less income inequality; deregulation and energy independence, saving taxpayers thousands per household; new trade deals that actually benefit us; a stronger military and border security; expanding religious freedoms; repealing the Obamacare mandate, which hurt the poorest the most, lower drug prices, and half a dozen programs for veterans’ health; right-to-try laws; the First Step Act, which reformed sentencing laws that have been extra harsh on blacks; and more.
The final chapter is a timeline of Trump’s response to the coronavirus. When he put in travel restrictions, the Democrats went ballistic, accusing him of racism and panic. Now they accuse him of not acting soon enough, and as always, they’re allowed to have it both ways.
(I can’t believe this library book is autographed. I’m tempted to “lose” it. I don’t listen to Sean’s radio show much because it starts off with this awful country music, but I expect a lot of this material has been said on the show lots of times.)
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Liberty is our watchword. Liberty is what makes America unique. The left, by contrast, has all but abandoned liberty in favor of government-forced outcomes, though their agenda guarantees not only less liberty but less prosperity as well.
[Leftists] reject our nation’s heritage, its values, and its very founding. They want to dilute our sovereignty by subsuming us in a larger international collective and by eradicating our borders. This is the key to understanding the left today. They don’t merely oppose specific American policies, they oppose our long-standing societal values, and they resent the institutions and culture that arose from those values. They have little use for liberty because it limits their ability to impose their political vision. They want to take more of your money and spend it on their priorities. And they want to dictate the most minute details of your life, decreeing what kind of straws you can drink from, what kind of lightbulbs you can use, and what kind of power your home can use.
[Paraphrasing Dinesh D’Souza] Being an Indian “is entirely a matter of birth and blood. You become an Indian by having Indian parents.” And that’s the norm throughout the world, but America is unique because “becoming American is less a function of birth or blood and more a function of embracing a set of ideas.”
I strongly believe in helping the poor, but I don’t believe the answer is the government seizing control of the economy and suppressing individual freedom in the name of “equality.” Of course there should be a safety net for the needy, but socialists constantly exploit the poor as a pretext for accumulating more power for themselves and confiscating more of society’s wealth for their own ends.
“Progressivism was an outlook that cared deeply about the common people and knew, far better than they did, what was best for them,” writes Wilfred McClay. “Thus there was always in Progressivism a certain implicity paternalism, a condescension that was all the more unattractive for being unacknowledged.”
When a society rejects moral absolutes, it has no basis to protect individual rights against the tyranny of the majority—because without such standards, any action, no matter how good or evil, and any deprivation of our liberties, can be rationalized. As scholar M. Standon Evans declared, “Moral relativism, however derived, must undermine the very possibility of freedom. No system of political liberty has ever been created from such notions, nor is it theoretically conceivable that one could.” All forms of despotism throughout history, Evans observed, have sprung from moral relativism. For freedom to exist there must be basic assumptions about the intrinsic dignity of human beings.
Every [Democratic] candidate at the February 7, 2020, debate either cosponsored or supported the Green New Deal, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s utopian plan to remake the American economy at a cost of unknown trillions of dollars. Indisputably, Democrats have become the party of socialism, open borders, sanctuary cities, the elimination of ICE, underfunding the military, abortion on demand, infanticide, environmental extremism, gun confiscation, higher taxes, radical identity politics, suppression of free speech and religious expression, and, among some Democratic members of Congress, undisguised anti-Semitism. They’re also the party of intolerance, smears, lies, character assassination, besmirchment, and fake Russian dossiers. They are singularly obsessed with their hatred for President Trump and his supporters. As the Brett Kavanaugh Senate Judiciary Committee hearings showed, they have abandoned any sense of fundamental decency, fairness, or common sense.
The promise of this country has never been income equality. Its guarantee has always been, and must continue to be, opportunity for all. Forced equal outcomes are themselves unfair and destroy liberty and prosperity. We must never let the American people or their elected representatives be held hostage to radical mobs who threaten social unrest unless their socialist demands are met, and who offer social peace only in exchange for our abandonment of the American dream.
The left generally believes that economies are finite, which means that if the wealthy get wealthier there will be less for everyone else. Free market advocates know that economic growth expands the pie, and that one person’s gain is not necessarily another’s loss. Indeed, studies show that even when there are increases in income inequality, there is not generally a decline in upward mobility.
Any Democratic debate on policy descends into an argument about identity politics. Democrats can’t offer any policy solutions without falsely accusing Republicans of bigotry. They never claim Republican policy proposals are simply deficient—it’s that all our policies, from the economy to abortion, are grounded in hatred for some group. Democrats have gone to the well too many times with this tactic—to the point of parody—and it’s bound to backfire as ordinary Americans grow weary of being constantly accused of prejudice every time they disagree with some left-wing policy prescription. Instead of uniting us as a people, it divides us as oppressors and oppressed, white versus minorities, gays versus straights, and men versus women. The Democrats can’t win an argument on the merits, so they resort to inflammatory accusations in a desperate and socially destructive attempt to conceal their lack of constructive ideas.
[Hugo] Chavez introduced many programs to fight poverty and assist the poor, including low-income housing projects, literacy programs, free health care, and food subsidies. While those programs were touted by his leftist international supporters, they proved to be utterly unsustainable when his overall socialist economic program wrecked the economy. Forced land transfers, land expropriations, and increasing state control led to a 75 percent drop in food production over the following two decades as the Venezuelan population increased to 33 percent. A vast program of nationalizing industry spread corruption and dramatically suppressed operations in electricity, water, banks, supermarkets, construction, and other industries.
[Bernie Sanders] called for state control over the main levers of the economy. That is what socialists want because that’s what socialism means. According to socialism, free individuals can’t be trusted. Why government bureaucrats are smarter or less selfish or less corrupt than businesspeople remains to be seen. But if a socialist gains power, this state of affairs has the benefit of concentrating far more power in his or her own hands.
In the Clinton impeachment, the president has the right to have his counsel present, to cross-examine, to call witnesses, to submit evidence, and to build a defense. Schiff conducted his witness depositions in a basement of Congress—secret testimony recorded in secret transcripts. He barred most Republicans from attending and from reading the documents. Those Republicans who were allowed to take part were barred from calling their own witnesses or issuing their own subpoenas. Even when they were allowed to ask questions, Schiff often directed witnesses not to answer.
We saw this play out in the media’s adoring coverage of the Obama administration. For instance, after Obama halted America’s “wet foot, dry foot” policy, which has permitted Cuban refugees who reached our shores to enter the country, the next morning the three major broadcast networks spent a scant sixty-eight SECONDS covering the story. But when Trump issued an executive order temporarily banning immigration from several Middle Eastern and African countries, they spent sixty-four MINUTES on the news. As NewsBusters noted, “The coverage of Trump’s executive order has been overwhelmingly negative, with NBC’s Today even suggesting a link between Trump’s immigration ban and a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec, despite a complete lack of evidence.” There you go—when Obama blocks refugees, it’s a nonstory. When Trump does it, it’s a form of mass murder.
The Pew Research Center analyzed the media’s coverage of Trump’s first sixty days and found it was far more biased than it was for the three preceding presidents. The Trump coverage was 62 percent negative, compared to 20 percent negative for Barack Obama and 28 percent for both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Only 5 percent of the Trump coverage was positive versus 42 percent positive for Obamaa, 22 percent for Bush, and 27 percent for Clinton.
I have consistently defending the First Amendment rights of everyone in this country, including members of the media and Hollywood elite whose opinions I find repugnant. I can give you chapter and verse defending various liberal figures to voice their most noxious views. I’ve taken some heat for that, but principle is principle. We must not confuse their inalienable right to free speech, however, with immunity from criticism. We have a duty to criticize politicized and dishonest journalism, and I have tried to do my part. The liberal media fraudulently hides behind the First Amendment when caught in their lies. And they use it to intimidate their honest critics, cynically depicting them as authoritarian speech suppressors. By deliberately spreading disinformation on a daily basis and dedicating all their considerable power to ousting a democratically elected president, the mainstream media has well earned the moniker “enemy of the people.”
[John] Tierney is right about these “younger progressive journalists” who try to get their conservative counterparts fired and banned from social media platforms, lobby Amazon to ban conservative books, and organize advertising boycotts against conservatives, which we Fox primetime hosts are routinely subjected to. Tierney makes a point I often make: “They equate conservatives’ speech with violence and rationalize leftists’ actual violence as … speech.” These virtue-signaling liberals are ever more dangerous to free speech for conservatives will inevitably, someday, boomerang back against the left.
It’s very bold and unapologetic about calling out socialists and defending liberty. The typical narrow-minded AOC-type leftist will not understand it and will be very offended by it.
The book covers a history of the country’s founding, the radical left’s goals, and a history of socialism, which is fashionable among the young for some reason. Next is a look at the Trump-Russia collusion hoax and the partisan-driven impeachment debacle, both with zero evidence of wrongdoing.
Then Hannity discusses the media’s sycophantic devotion to the left, obsessive hatred of Trump, and their attack on free speech. Next is a quick run-down of all of Trump’s accomplishments: tax cuts for the middle class and small businesses; record GDP that Obama never came close to seeing; record unemployment, especially for minorities, fewer people on welfare, and less income inequality; deregulation and energy independence, saving taxpayers thousands per household; new trade deals that actually benefit us; a stronger military and border security; expanding religious freedoms; repealing the Obamacare mandate, which hurt the poorest the most, lower drug prices, and half a dozen programs for veterans’ health; right-to-try laws; the First Step Act, which reformed sentencing laws that have been extra harsh on blacks; and more.
The final chapter is a timeline of Trump’s response to the coronavirus. When he put in travel restrictions, the Democrats went ballistic, accusing him of racism and panic. Now they accuse him of not acting soon enough, and as always, they’re allowed to have it both ways.
(I can’t believe this library book is autographed. I’m tempted to “lose” it. I don’t listen to Sean’s radio show much because it starts off with this awful country music, but I expect a lot of this material has been said on the show lots of times.)
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Liberty is our watchword. Liberty is what makes America unique. The left, by contrast, has all but abandoned liberty in favor of government-forced outcomes, though their agenda guarantees not only less liberty but less prosperity as well.
[Leftists] reject our nation’s heritage, its values, and its very founding. They want to dilute our sovereignty by subsuming us in a larger international collective and by eradicating our borders. This is the key to understanding the left today. They don’t merely oppose specific American policies, they oppose our long-standing societal values, and they resent the institutions and culture that arose from those values. They have little use for liberty because it limits their ability to impose their political vision. They want to take more of your money and spend it on their priorities. And they want to dictate the most minute details of your life, decreeing what kind of straws you can drink from, what kind of lightbulbs you can use, and what kind of power your home can use.
[Paraphrasing Dinesh D’Souza] Being an Indian “is entirely a matter of birth and blood. You become an Indian by having Indian parents.” And that’s the norm throughout the world, but America is unique because “becoming American is less a function of birth or blood and more a function of embracing a set of ideas.”
I strongly believe in helping the poor, but I don’t believe the answer is the government seizing control of the economy and suppressing individual freedom in the name of “equality.” Of course there should be a safety net for the needy, but socialists constantly exploit the poor as a pretext for accumulating more power for themselves and confiscating more of society’s wealth for their own ends.
“Progressivism was an outlook that cared deeply about the common people and knew, far better than they did, what was best for them,” writes Wilfred McClay. “Thus there was always in Progressivism a certain implicity paternalism, a condescension that was all the more unattractive for being unacknowledged.”
When a society rejects moral absolutes, it has no basis to protect individual rights against the tyranny of the majority—because without such standards, any action, no matter how good or evil, and any deprivation of our liberties, can be rationalized. As scholar M. Standon Evans declared, “Moral relativism, however derived, must undermine the very possibility of freedom. No system of political liberty has ever been created from such notions, nor is it theoretically conceivable that one could.” All forms of despotism throughout history, Evans observed, have sprung from moral relativism. For freedom to exist there must be basic assumptions about the intrinsic dignity of human beings.
Every [Democratic] candidate at the February 7, 2020, debate either cosponsored or supported the Green New Deal, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s utopian plan to remake the American economy at a cost of unknown trillions of dollars. Indisputably, Democrats have become the party of socialism, open borders, sanctuary cities, the elimination of ICE, underfunding the military, abortion on demand, infanticide, environmental extremism, gun confiscation, higher taxes, radical identity politics, suppression of free speech and religious expression, and, among some Democratic members of Congress, undisguised anti-Semitism. They’re also the party of intolerance, smears, lies, character assassination, besmirchment, and fake Russian dossiers. They are singularly obsessed with their hatred for President Trump and his supporters. As the Brett Kavanaugh Senate Judiciary Committee hearings showed, they have abandoned any sense of fundamental decency, fairness, or common sense.
The promise of this country has never been income equality. Its guarantee has always been, and must continue to be, opportunity for all. Forced equal outcomes are themselves unfair and destroy liberty and prosperity. We must never let the American people or their elected representatives be held hostage to radical mobs who threaten social unrest unless their socialist demands are met, and who offer social peace only in exchange for our abandonment of the American dream.
The left generally believes that economies are finite, which means that if the wealthy get wealthier there will be less for everyone else. Free market advocates know that economic growth expands the pie, and that one person’s gain is not necessarily another’s loss. Indeed, studies show that even when there are increases in income inequality, there is not generally a decline in upward mobility.
Any Democratic debate on policy descends into an argument about identity politics. Democrats can’t offer any policy solutions without falsely accusing Republicans of bigotry. They never claim Republican policy proposals are simply deficient—it’s that all our policies, from the economy to abortion, are grounded in hatred for some group. Democrats have gone to the well too many times with this tactic—to the point of parody—and it’s bound to backfire as ordinary Americans grow weary of being constantly accused of prejudice every time they disagree with some left-wing policy prescription. Instead of uniting us as a people, it divides us as oppressors and oppressed, white versus minorities, gays versus straights, and men versus women. The Democrats can’t win an argument on the merits, so they resort to inflammatory accusations in a desperate and socially destructive attempt to conceal their lack of constructive ideas.
[Hugo] Chavez introduced many programs to fight poverty and assist the poor, including low-income housing projects, literacy programs, free health care, and food subsidies. While those programs were touted by his leftist international supporters, they proved to be utterly unsustainable when his overall socialist economic program wrecked the economy. Forced land transfers, land expropriations, and increasing state control led to a 75 percent drop in food production over the following two decades as the Venezuelan population increased to 33 percent. A vast program of nationalizing industry spread corruption and dramatically suppressed operations in electricity, water, banks, supermarkets, construction, and other industries.
[Bernie Sanders] called for state control over the main levers of the economy. That is what socialists want because that’s what socialism means. According to socialism, free individuals can’t be trusted. Why government bureaucrats are smarter or less selfish or less corrupt than businesspeople remains to be seen. But if a socialist gains power, this state of affairs has the benefit of concentrating far more power in his or her own hands.
In the Clinton impeachment, the president has the right to have his counsel present, to cross-examine, to call witnesses, to submit evidence, and to build a defense. Schiff conducted his witness depositions in a basement of Congress—secret testimony recorded in secret transcripts. He barred most Republicans from attending and from reading the documents. Those Republicans who were allowed to take part were barred from calling their own witnesses or issuing their own subpoenas. Even when they were allowed to ask questions, Schiff often directed witnesses not to answer.
We saw this play out in the media’s adoring coverage of the Obama administration. For instance, after Obama halted America’s “wet foot, dry foot” policy, which has permitted Cuban refugees who reached our shores to enter the country, the next morning the three major broadcast networks spent a scant sixty-eight SECONDS covering the story. But when Trump issued an executive order temporarily banning immigration from several Middle Eastern and African countries, they spent sixty-four MINUTES on the news. As NewsBusters noted, “The coverage of Trump’s executive order has been overwhelmingly negative, with NBC’s Today even suggesting a link between Trump’s immigration ban and a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec, despite a complete lack of evidence.” There you go—when Obama blocks refugees, it’s a nonstory. When Trump does it, it’s a form of mass murder.
The Pew Research Center analyzed the media’s coverage of Trump’s first sixty days and found it was far more biased than it was for the three preceding presidents. The Trump coverage was 62 percent negative, compared to 20 percent negative for Barack Obama and 28 percent for both George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Only 5 percent of the Trump coverage was positive versus 42 percent positive for Obamaa, 22 percent for Bush, and 27 percent for Clinton.
I have consistently defending the First Amendment rights of everyone in this country, including members of the media and Hollywood elite whose opinions I find repugnant. I can give you chapter and verse defending various liberal figures to voice their most noxious views. I’ve taken some heat for that, but principle is principle. We must not confuse their inalienable right to free speech, however, with immunity from criticism. We have a duty to criticize politicized and dishonest journalism, and I have tried to do my part. The liberal media fraudulently hides behind the First Amendment when caught in their lies. And they use it to intimidate their honest critics, cynically depicting them as authoritarian speech suppressors. By deliberately spreading disinformation on a daily basis and dedicating all their considerable power to ousting a democratically elected president, the mainstream media has well earned the moniker “enemy of the people.”
[John] Tierney is right about these “younger progressive journalists” who try to get their conservative counterparts fired and banned from social media platforms, lobby Amazon to ban conservative books, and organize advertising boycotts against conservatives, which we Fox primetime hosts are routinely subjected to. Tierney makes a point I often make: “They equate conservatives’ speech with violence and rationalize leftists’ actual violence as … speech.” These virtue-signaling liberals are ever more dangerous to free speech for conservatives will inevitably, someday, boomerang back against the left.
August 10, 2020
This book was amazing, I recommend every person in this country should read this. Sean provided a lot of information that was insightful and easy to comprehend, I learned a few things that I didn't know.
August 23, 2020
Excellent
Terrific expose of the American radical left and why Trump is the only thing standing between the destruction of America and its preservation. Highly recommended.
Terrific expose of the American radical left and why Trump is the only thing standing between the destruction of America and its preservation. Highly recommended.
May 7, 2023
This was an audiobook I listened to while cutting the back 40, and landscaping/ building the new front flower bed. It was written just prior to the 2020 Presidential election. Hannity still didn't know if the Dems would nominate Poopypants Biden.
In the book Hannity warned about transgenderism becoming a hot button and the Dems trying to pack the supreme court. He warned that the Dems would continue to use the FBI, CIA, and DOJ as a way to punish conservatives. He warned that if elected Biden would use the "power of the pen", just like Obama to write executive orders to get what he wanted. He warned Biden would cave in and follow the far-left Socialist/Communist agenda of the squad. He warned that like Obama, Biden would write these orders "KNOWING FULL WELL' that many would be unconstitutional- just as Obama had.
He railed against the mainstream media and their UNFAIR and BIASED treatment of ANY AND ALL Conservative, Republican candidates. He remarked about the lying and covering up the media does for the Democratic, liberals. All this has come true in my eyes. We see the unabashed bias and reporting every day in the news. All major networks say the same thing- many times with the exact same wording and talking points. He also warned that the Trump lives in the Dems heads and they would keep going after him whether or not he won re-election.
All have come true. Every. Last. Thing.
In the book Hannity warned about transgenderism becoming a hot button and the Dems trying to pack the supreme court. He warned that the Dems would continue to use the FBI, CIA, and DOJ as a way to punish conservatives. He warned that if elected Biden would use the "power of the pen", just like Obama to write executive orders to get what he wanted. He warned Biden would cave in and follow the far-left Socialist/Communist agenda of the squad. He warned that like Obama, Biden would write these orders "KNOWING FULL WELL' that many would be unconstitutional- just as Obama had.
He railed against the mainstream media and their UNFAIR and BIASED treatment of ANY AND ALL Conservative, Republican candidates. He remarked about the lying and covering up the media does for the Democratic, liberals. All this has come true in my eyes. We see the unabashed bias and reporting every day in the news. All major networks say the same thing- many times with the exact same wording and talking points. He also warned that the Trump lives in the Dems heads and they would keep going after him whether or not he won re-election.
All have come true. Every. Last. Thing.
July 16, 2022
I've seen this author speak. He seems personable and is very articulate. And I get that being in and near the political arena is his job. In this book, I liked the history and his explanations of different governments. I can even say I liked the way he dissected some of this. But what I didn't like was all the name calling. It felt like playground posture. That isn't helping the current politcal climate. So overall, this one was just okay for me.
June 23, 2022
This was written before the 2020 election. Sean opens the book up with a warning of the danger that far left radicals within the Democrat party will pose on our nation if Donald Trump is not elected to a second term intern.
Unfortunately it appears that Sean is correct as we have seen thus far the slow destruction of our economy through inflation, an energy crisis with unprecedented fuel prices and the encroachment of divisive, perverted leftist values on our vulnerable children in schools.
"No country has accumulated more power, abused it less, but also used its power to the advance the human condition more than the United States."
Obviously this era has come to an end as we can see the brazen and open abuse of power today in our federal government.
Hannity discusses American exceptionalism and the shared beliefs and values that bind us as a nation. The many contributions that the United States of America has shared with the rest of the world.
Listed below are some of the topics discussed in the book.
-Sean discusses the founding of America, the Mayflower Compact and the ideals of self governance.
-Discusses how the United States of America was founded upon Christian ideals and provides ample evidence of this. He also acknowledges that 52 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, as well as the vast majority of the signers of the Constitution were devout practicing Christians.
-Discusses the rejection by progressives of the notion that we are born free and of God given natural rights as intended by the founding fathers. Instead progressive thought argues that these natural rights can only be bestowed upon by the state or government or government as far as it is in the best interest of the state and the collective.
-Moral Relativism versus Moral Absolutism.
-He discusses the radicalization of the Democrat party and their march to socialism as establishment Democrats are pushed more and more to align with their radical base, the new far left.
-The Democrat's lies and vilification of Donald Trump and their endless stream of false accusations.
-The "Green New Deal" - Socialism disguised as environmentalism.
Even AOC's chief of staff admitted the "deal" had nothing to do with environmentalism, but was intended to radically change the economy.
-Obscene tax hikes and the Democrat's disastrous spending and economic policies.
-The Democrat's barbaric, inhumane, and murderous stance on late term abortion and infanticide.
-The Democrat's socially destructive obsession with identity politics.
-The horrifying nature and failures of socialism and communism around the world.
-The giant Trump-Russia hoax and the fact that the Muller probe, which took over 2 years, did not find a shred of evidence that Trump colluded with Russia.
-The unprecedented abuse of power by the FBI.
-The main stream media's spin, lies, and visceral hatred for Trump. Numerous examples of that.
-The media's undeniable partisan bias following their gushing love affair with Obama.
-Cancel culture and multiple examples left's attacks on free speech, particularly in universities.
-All the many successes and economic progress made by the Trump administration despite being ignored and denied by the partisan media.
Unfortunately it appears that Sean is correct as we have seen thus far the slow destruction of our economy through inflation, an energy crisis with unprecedented fuel prices and the encroachment of divisive, perverted leftist values on our vulnerable children in schools.
"No country has accumulated more power, abused it less, but also used its power to the advance the human condition more than the United States."
Obviously this era has come to an end as we can see the brazen and open abuse of power today in our federal government.
Hannity discusses American exceptionalism and the shared beliefs and values that bind us as a nation. The many contributions that the United States of America has shared with the rest of the world.
Listed below are some of the topics discussed in the book.
-Sean discusses the founding of America, the Mayflower Compact and the ideals of self governance.
-Discusses how the United States of America was founded upon Christian ideals and provides ample evidence of this. He also acknowledges that 52 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, as well as the vast majority of the signers of the Constitution were devout practicing Christians.
-Discusses the rejection by progressives of the notion that we are born free and of God given natural rights as intended by the founding fathers. Instead progressive thought argues that these natural rights can only be bestowed upon by the state or government or government as far as it is in the best interest of the state and the collective.
-Moral Relativism versus Moral Absolutism.
-He discusses the radicalization of the Democrat party and their march to socialism as establishment Democrats are pushed more and more to align with their radical base, the new far left.
-The Democrat's lies and vilification of Donald Trump and their endless stream of false accusations.
-The "Green New Deal" - Socialism disguised as environmentalism.
Even AOC's chief of staff admitted the "deal" had nothing to do with environmentalism, but was intended to radically change the economy.
-Obscene tax hikes and the Democrat's disastrous spending and economic policies.
-The Democrat's barbaric, inhumane, and murderous stance on late term abortion and infanticide.
-The Democrat's socially destructive obsession with identity politics.
-The horrifying nature and failures of socialism and communism around the world.
-The giant Trump-Russia hoax and the fact that the Muller probe, which took over 2 years, did not find a shred of evidence that Trump colluded with Russia.
-The unprecedented abuse of power by the FBI.
-The main stream media's spin, lies, and visceral hatred for Trump. Numerous examples of that.
-The media's undeniable partisan bias following their gushing love affair with Obama.
-Cancel culture and multiple examples left's attacks on free speech, particularly in universities.
-All the many successes and economic progress made by the Trump administration despite being ignored and denied by the partisan media.
September 2, 2020
SUBJECTIVE READER REVIEW WITH PLOT SPOILERS FOLLOWS:
A major opus, published just in time to chronicle the watershed event of America, the 2020 Presidential Election. I'll give Hannity his due; he thoroughly researched the four+ year storyline, the common denominator being the Democratic Party's enduring denial over the results of the 2016 election. But while recovery from loss, or grieving, normally includes five steps, the Democrats have gone directly from denial to revolution.
It has been plausibly posed that the overwhelming disbelief held by Hillary was directly associated with her ASSURANCE that ballot fraud had won her the election. Close associates of mine attribute it to the redneck rebellion. I personally feel that the patriotic people of America took a stand that stopped socialism on the steps of the US Supreme Court. Sean Hannity quoted Reagan in this book, "Freedom is but one generation away from extinction." I'll go ahead and summarize the choice laid out in 'Live Free Or Die' in three words: LIBERTY VERSUS ANARCHY.
Hannity lays out the process that most of Donald Trump's successes have been forced to take: a constipated House, solely focused on impeachment; the President's issuance of Executive Orders to gain inertia; the liberals filing suit to obviate by injunction; and finally, the Administration winning in appeal to overthrow the injunction. Helluva way to have to achieve greatness, but Donald Trump is a stubborn Patriot bent on a continuance of the Republic and democracy as laid out by the Founding Fathers. Here's the bottom line that Hannity and I share: the day we deny that the light of God leads us is the day that liberty dies. And neither of us is ready for that yet.
Incredibly, although Hannity lays out the organized nature of the rioting and looting completely embraced by the liberal Democrats, he never mentions Obama's 'Organize For Action,' which in most playbooks is the backbone of the protests if not the riots, along with Antifa. From an objective point of view, what should the average American's reaction be to the riots taking place in the big Democratic mayor cities? Arm up, because our sense of survival is clearly threatened, and all other aspects of life wither in the prospect of annihilation.
I noticed 'Live Free Or Die' had an average Goodreads rating of 4.28 stars. If I had to point to a weakness, it's the first fourth of the book. Hell, I considered shelving it myself over boredom...but I somehow could not put it on the shelf. The last half of this book will make you aware, if you weren't already, that a Democratic win in November spells the end of liberty as we know it. I don't think American Patriots, veterans and people who believe in Christ are ready to abandon the great experiment just yet. Heroic piece of work Sean Hannity!
A major opus, published just in time to chronicle the watershed event of America, the 2020 Presidential Election. I'll give Hannity his due; he thoroughly researched the four+ year storyline, the common denominator being the Democratic Party's enduring denial over the results of the 2016 election. But while recovery from loss, or grieving, normally includes five steps, the Democrats have gone directly from denial to revolution.
It has been plausibly posed that the overwhelming disbelief held by Hillary was directly associated with her ASSURANCE that ballot fraud had won her the election. Close associates of mine attribute it to the redneck rebellion. I personally feel that the patriotic people of America took a stand that stopped socialism on the steps of the US Supreme Court. Sean Hannity quoted Reagan in this book, "Freedom is but one generation away from extinction." I'll go ahead and summarize the choice laid out in 'Live Free Or Die' in three words: LIBERTY VERSUS ANARCHY.
Hannity lays out the process that most of Donald Trump's successes have been forced to take: a constipated House, solely focused on impeachment; the President's issuance of Executive Orders to gain inertia; the liberals filing suit to obviate by injunction; and finally, the Administration winning in appeal to overthrow the injunction. Helluva way to have to achieve greatness, but Donald Trump is a stubborn Patriot bent on a continuance of the Republic and democracy as laid out by the Founding Fathers. Here's the bottom line that Hannity and I share: the day we deny that the light of God leads us is the day that liberty dies. And neither of us is ready for that yet.
Incredibly, although Hannity lays out the organized nature of the rioting and looting completely embraced by the liberal Democrats, he never mentions Obama's 'Organize For Action,' which in most playbooks is the backbone of the protests if not the riots, along with Antifa. From an objective point of view, what should the average American's reaction be to the riots taking place in the big Democratic mayor cities? Arm up, because our sense of survival is clearly threatened, and all other aspects of life wither in the prospect of annihilation.
I noticed 'Live Free Or Die' had an average Goodreads rating of 4.28 stars. If I had to point to a weakness, it's the first fourth of the book. Hell, I considered shelving it myself over boredom...but I somehow could not put it on the shelf. The last half of this book will make you aware, if you weren't already, that a Democratic win in November spells the end of liberty as we know it. I don't think American Patriots, veterans and people who believe in Christ are ready to abandon the great experiment just yet. Heroic piece of work Sean Hannity!
September 5, 2020
I found this book at Costco. The title sucked me in as "Live Free or Die," is the state motto of my home state, New Hampshire. Politics are divisive these days and this review is not that. It is an honest look at the book.
One of the things that struck me right away is that the opening chapters are a condensed civics lesson about political science in general, that does not lean toward the left or right. These chapters focus on what the founding father intended when they wrote the Constitution, and what topics they intended future generations of Americans to tackle within the framework of their guidance. As I read these chapters, I thought back to my major in college (political science) and a lot of what Hannity was writing about were the very topics I discussed and researched as a poly sci major. That alone was enough for me to know that the author was coming from a grounded place with this book. This presentation gave the points he made a lot more weight in my eyes.
There are chapters on basic government, socialism, the Russian collision, and impeachment. Hannity also tackles the mainstream media bias. There's also a comprehensive timeline on the government's COVID 19 response. Every topic is laid out logically. Hannity's writing style is easy to read and understand. The depth and complexity of the Russian collision topic was explained well, and in such a way that made me feel that the author wasn't condescending to me, the reader.
This book is a must read. The author's conviction and passion for political science, recent events, and love of his country shine through. For reader's who embrace and believe that socialism is a political platform that our government should follow, this book is not for you. This book is well written and the arguments well presented. I would recommend this book for those voters who are looking for an honest assessment of the current political climate.
One of the things that struck me right away is that the opening chapters are a condensed civics lesson about political science in general, that does not lean toward the left or right. These chapters focus on what the founding father intended when they wrote the Constitution, and what topics they intended future generations of Americans to tackle within the framework of their guidance. As I read these chapters, I thought back to my major in college (political science) and a lot of what Hannity was writing about were the very topics I discussed and researched as a poly sci major. That alone was enough for me to know that the author was coming from a grounded place with this book. This presentation gave the points he made a lot more weight in my eyes.
There are chapters on basic government, socialism, the Russian collision, and impeachment. Hannity also tackles the mainstream media bias. There's also a comprehensive timeline on the government's COVID 19 response. Every topic is laid out logically. Hannity's writing style is easy to read and understand. The depth and complexity of the Russian collision topic was explained well, and in such a way that made me feel that the author wasn't condescending to me, the reader.
This book is a must read. The author's conviction and passion for political science, recent events, and love of his country shine through. For reader's who embrace and believe that socialism is a political platform that our government should follow, this book is not for you. This book is well written and the arguments well presented. I would recommend this book for those voters who are looking for an honest assessment of the current political climate.
September 24, 2020
Worthwhile Listening Cover to Cover
Occasionally I watch Sean Hannity’s television program. At first, I wondered if I needed to listen to Hannity read his LIVE FREE OR DIE audiobook.Then I was hooked and heard it all. The book crystallizes the issues and results of the last three and a half years of President Donald Trump. This book is full of research and quotations from Democrats and Republicans.
Each chapter is well-written and insightful. I found it valuable listening and heard this audiobook from beginning until the end. If you need to figure out how you will cast your vote for president in 2020, then I highly recommend a careful listening to LIVE FREE OR DIE. Sean Hannity definitely gives you the insights and ammunition you need to make an informed vote. I enjoyed the book and highly recommend it.
W. Terry Whalin is an editor and the author of more than 60 books including his latest 10 Publishing Myths, Insights Every Author Needs to Succeed .
Occasionally I watch Sean Hannity’s television program. At first, I wondered if I needed to listen to Hannity read his LIVE FREE OR DIE audiobook.Then I was hooked and heard it all. The book crystallizes the issues and results of the last three and a half years of President Donald Trump. This book is full of research and quotations from Democrats and Republicans.
Each chapter is well-written and insightful. I found it valuable listening and heard this audiobook from beginning until the end. If you need to figure out how you will cast your vote for president in 2020, then I highly recommend a careful listening to LIVE FREE OR DIE. Sean Hannity definitely gives you the insights and ammunition you need to make an informed vote. I enjoyed the book and highly recommend it.
W. Terry Whalin is an editor and the author of more than 60 books including his latest 10 Publishing Myths, Insights Every Author Needs to Succeed .
September 4, 2020
Sean did a great job of highlighting the promises this president made to the american people and kept. However the most important point of the book is how the left in this country has done nothing but try to subvert this president at every turn. Never in the history of our country has a president been so harshly criticized for every move he makes. The main point is how the left is driving our country to socialism which is one step away from communism. All of our brave heroes fought and died in our wars to fight this very thing and now so called americans are trying to destroy us from within. This should be required reading of everyone before they make an intelligent decision at the voting booth. This should also be required reading in every high school and college in our nation. Great job Sean!
August 29, 2020
Sean Hannity is a talented writer, whose book, kept my interest at all times. The author loves America. He doesn't want American Exceptionalism to be a thing of the past. Author Hannity gives facts as well as opinions about what is really going on in the Political Scene. One must also remember that most of the media are not for President Donald Trump. For this reason alone, I feel this is a very important book to read. Sean Hannity sets the record straight on many of President Trump's accomplishments. I highly recommend, "Live free Or Die" to the Independent Voters, Democrat and Conservative as well.
August 18, 2020
This book mostly presents facts, not author's opinions. Details many Trump administration's accomplishments and campaign promises kept which some news outlets and politicians appear to be willfully suppressing or misrepresenting. There's an entire chapter which highlights all the steps taken to deal with COVID 19
May 28, 2021
EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS BOOK
September 20, 2020
Should be a required read for everyone before the election 🇺🇸🇺🇸
September 8, 2020
The one thing a reader can do to understand what their in for when reading, Sean Hannity's, Live Free or Die is when opening the book, just take a moment to look at the table of contents. This outline frames the choice given: Live Free or Die, and it also somewhat shows a timeline. I don't know if Hannity did this on purpose, but I'm guessing he did because from listening to and watching his shows, I know, he poured his heart and soul into writing this book.
Basically, the TOC shows the book in 2 parts, from the Introduction to Chapter 4 and from Chapter 5- 10 and a conclusion. The intro brings us Sean's stark warning, with a summary of the political landscape where we're at as a country, and the fork in the road before us, as we continue our march to November 3rd. Chapter 1 goes over the framework of our country and how this framework blessed so many because it gives the freedom necessary to pursue dreams along with the risk needed to drive those to succeed. This type of energy is the gift that keeps on giving, and as a society and a people, we all work together producing a culture of success and the entrepreneurial spirit that America has not only successfully developed but maintained for hundreds of years.
But it also has made us the envy of the world, and that envy can't go unnoticed because many countries with tyrannical governments, and thus many failures, would like nothing more than to see America brought down to her knees. This is where we're introduced to the radicals of our country in Sean's early chapters.
The Democrat party is no longer your grandparents Democrat party. I could have been a Democrat when Democrats were about helping fellow countrymen and countrywomen out of hard times. When working to alleviate areas in our society that were unfair and inhumane. These were the things the Democrats once stood for. But somewhere along the line, the radicals came and started gaining ground in political, and cultural areas of our society, and as they did so successfully they became even more radicalized. And now we are dealing with the most radical party in the Democrats we have ever seen and experienced. These are really Marxists ready to shove down our throats their wish list of what they believe will give them a socialist utopia, but would crush our economy, kill America's entrepreneurial spirit and along with it our freedom.
Countries have fallen to such regimes and have fallen to communism, and countries like Venezuela under total tyranny. Read Chapter 4 of the many examples of what happens when a country becomes communist they eventually turn socialist and their people end up suffering and dying. The examples in this chapter will break your heart and to be totally honest freak you out.
So, as I was saying there is a timeline here between the Introduction and Chapter 4. We have our country's framework blessing us beyond belief and making our country the greatest in the world. We then have radicals wanting to change our country and make it what they think would be their perfect vision, their utopia, and with these radicals there are foreign entities who see their opening, making the radicals unapologetically anti-American, and bring their wish list that will only turn our country into a socialist nightmare and destroying America once and for all.
All this would have already happened if it wasn't for Donald J Trump. Donald J. Trump intercepted this football and ran with it. Thank God.
So the 2nd half of this book, reads much like the timeline from when President Trump took office and took away the power from these insane radical Democrats. Losing the power they were abusing for years, and years, as the establishment, as the deep state, they hatched plot to take him down, with the phony Russia hoax and to their galling attempt to impeach him. Along with all this Sean explains how the media is weaponized against him (and us) and have abandoned all journalistic integrity and even though phony, unbiased reporting, and now are all in to destroy him (and us), leading them to lose much of their credibility and like in the case of Sandmann millions of dollars.
Sean then lays out all the tremendous accomplishments that President Trump has delivered, even in the face of such thug politics from the other side, and even with the constant attacks that are never ending in the media. I especially loved how Sean also described how Trump rolled back so many of Obama's God awful executive orders and the deals he was making with other countries, undermining America's greatness. He also describes Trump's terrific response to COVID and offers a conclusion that sounds rather hopeful then as dark as his introduction. Again showing a timeline, his introduction talked mostly about Obama and what Obama did to us and his conclusion speaks about Trump and what he's done for us.
There is no doubt the choice is ours; we need to re-elect Trump, so that we are not back where we were when Trump intercepted the football and where we were on the precipice to America's ultimate demise.
Basically, the TOC shows the book in 2 parts, from the Introduction to Chapter 4 and from Chapter 5- 10 and a conclusion. The intro brings us Sean's stark warning, with a summary of the political landscape where we're at as a country, and the fork in the road before us, as we continue our march to November 3rd. Chapter 1 goes over the framework of our country and how this framework blessed so many because it gives the freedom necessary to pursue dreams along with the risk needed to drive those to succeed. This type of energy is the gift that keeps on giving, and as a society and a people, we all work together producing a culture of success and the entrepreneurial spirit that America has not only successfully developed but maintained for hundreds of years.
But it also has made us the envy of the world, and that envy can't go unnoticed because many countries with tyrannical governments, and thus many failures, would like nothing more than to see America brought down to her knees. This is where we're introduced to the radicals of our country in Sean's early chapters.
The Democrat party is no longer your grandparents Democrat party. I could have been a Democrat when Democrats were about helping fellow countrymen and countrywomen out of hard times. When working to alleviate areas in our society that were unfair and inhumane. These were the things the Democrats once stood for. But somewhere along the line, the radicals came and started gaining ground in political, and cultural areas of our society, and as they did so successfully they became even more radicalized. And now we are dealing with the most radical party in the Democrats we have ever seen and experienced. These are really Marxists ready to shove down our throats their wish list of what they believe will give them a socialist utopia, but would crush our economy, kill America's entrepreneurial spirit and along with it our freedom.
Countries have fallen to such regimes and have fallen to communism, and countries like Venezuela under total tyranny. Read Chapter 4 of the many examples of what happens when a country becomes communist they eventually turn socialist and their people end up suffering and dying. The examples in this chapter will break your heart and to be totally honest freak you out.
So, as I was saying there is a timeline here between the Introduction and Chapter 4. We have our country's framework blessing us beyond belief and making our country the greatest in the world. We then have radicals wanting to change our country and make it what they think would be their perfect vision, their utopia, and with these radicals there are foreign entities who see their opening, making the radicals unapologetically anti-American, and bring their wish list that will only turn our country into a socialist nightmare and destroying America once and for all.
All this would have already happened if it wasn't for Donald J Trump. Donald J. Trump intercepted this football and ran with it. Thank God.
So the 2nd half of this book, reads much like the timeline from when President Trump took office and took away the power from these insane radical Democrats. Losing the power they were abusing for years, and years, as the establishment, as the deep state, they hatched plot to take him down, with the phony Russia hoax and to their galling attempt to impeach him. Along with all this Sean explains how the media is weaponized against him (and us) and have abandoned all journalistic integrity and even though phony, unbiased reporting, and now are all in to destroy him (and us), leading them to lose much of their credibility and like in the case of Sandmann millions of dollars.
Sean then lays out all the tremendous accomplishments that President Trump has delivered, even in the face of such thug politics from the other side, and even with the constant attacks that are never ending in the media. I especially loved how Sean also described how Trump rolled back so many of Obama's God awful executive orders and the deals he was making with other countries, undermining America's greatness. He also describes Trump's terrific response to COVID and offers a conclusion that sounds rather hopeful then as dark as his introduction. Again showing a timeline, his introduction talked mostly about Obama and what Obama did to us and his conclusion speaks about Trump and what he's done for us.
There is no doubt the choice is ours; we need to re-elect Trump, so that we are not back where we were when Trump intercepted the football and where we were on the precipice to America's ultimate demise.
April 18, 2021
Live Free or Die is a book written by Sean Hannity to not only share his intense and loyal conviction to conservative politics, but, it is also a volume, that strives to convince the reader that the last four years in the White House under the leadership of Donald Trump were, as opposed to the stories provided by most media outlets, not a travesty but a triumph. It is likely that many people, simply seeing this volume in a store, would be provoked to anger, and they would simply consider it to be right winged propaganda. However, after reading his book, I am convinced that Mr. Hannity, himself, truly believes what he is saying, and, most likely, lives by those principles as well as he can. It also taught me something else. That many of us are seeking for truth, and we are having a hard time finding it. I, for one, believe that standards of journalism are at an all time low, not just because opinions are now being touted as fact based, important accomplishments by government officials are being degraded or omitted, and facts are being misrepresented, but because, sadly enough, many, if not most of those, that have the responsibility to provide us with factual information, have, for some reason, mislaid their professional integrity, ethics, and independence.
For example, as I read this volume, I discovered that many actions performed by the White House over the last four years, mainly by the President, were simply not broadcast, because reporters were too concerned about impeachment trials and removing the current President. Consequently, successful agreements made in the Middle East, efforts to stop Covid 19, steps to promote religious liberty, and strides in criminal and justice reform, to name a few, were never shared with the public. At any rate, regardless of what political view a prospective reader may have, what we really want is truth, and I believe that this is one commodity that has recently been lacking within this country. For that reason I was impressed to see that this book, which Mr. Hannity admits required a great amount of help in writing from his staff due to his busy schedule, has a 50 page bibliography. Now, I admit that some of the bibliography may include "right wing doctrine," but in my purview, I found nothing but facts supporting the book.
One other matter I believe this book successfully shares is a discussion on the principles which originally formed this country and what it stands for. This book describes the formation of our union, and the reason that the Constitution of the United States is such an important and timeless document, and why current law makers should make sure it is protected, because of the inherent rights that it provides every citizen of this country regardless of our race, gender, or beliefs. Those rights include the way we vote, how we are protected within and outside our borders, and how we are defended in this country's courts. When our current lawmakers insist on degrading this ageless instrument, then we can consider that our rights are hanging by a thread, and our freedoms are in danger.
I apologize for sharing some of my own philosophy in this review, but I almost can't help myself during this alarming time. I highly recommend this book, regardless of your political leanings. If you read it with an open mind, you will learn.
For example, as I read this volume, I discovered that many actions performed by the White House over the last four years, mainly by the President, were simply not broadcast, because reporters were too concerned about impeachment trials and removing the current President. Consequently, successful agreements made in the Middle East, efforts to stop Covid 19, steps to promote religious liberty, and strides in criminal and justice reform, to name a few, were never shared with the public. At any rate, regardless of what political view a prospective reader may have, what we really want is truth, and I believe that this is one commodity that has recently been lacking within this country. For that reason I was impressed to see that this book, which Mr. Hannity admits required a great amount of help in writing from his staff due to his busy schedule, has a 50 page bibliography. Now, I admit that some of the bibliography may include "right wing doctrine," but in my purview, I found nothing but facts supporting the book.
One other matter I believe this book successfully shares is a discussion on the principles which originally formed this country and what it stands for. This book describes the formation of our union, and the reason that the Constitution of the United States is such an important and timeless document, and why current law makers should make sure it is protected, because of the inherent rights that it provides every citizen of this country regardless of our race, gender, or beliefs. Those rights include the way we vote, how we are protected within and outside our borders, and how we are defended in this country's courts. When our current lawmakers insist on degrading this ageless instrument, then we can consider that our rights are hanging by a thread, and our freedoms are in danger.
I apologize for sharing some of my own philosophy in this review, but I almost can't help myself during this alarming time. I highly recommend this book, regardless of your political leanings. If you read it with an open mind, you will learn.
October 12, 2020
I am clearly not the audience for this book, but the summary looked interesting and Mr. Hannity has a large audience and I think it is important to develop empathy for a variety of views.
There are a lot of concerning things in this book that I will discuss below but here is a summary:
1. No thesis for this long book
2. Lots of naming calling of Mr. Hannity’s enemies. The name calling seems to be an attempt to dehumanize his political opponents and to build a stereotype of their views. This is unnecessary at best and extremely dangerous at worst
3. Socialism - There is a long rant about how socialism is terrible and will destroy America but Mr. Hannity doesn’t clearly address that there are degrees of a socialist society. He focuses on Marxism which somehow he feels that he needs to systematically discredit while tying American Democrats to it. Nothing in the Democratic position papers or in the majority of democratic American’s are indicating that we need to wage class warfare and put all industry in the hands of the state.
A. There is a lot of discussion of failed Marxist states but nothing about successful social democracies like France, UK, the Nordics. Americans want something more like those societies.
B. As an aside: American’s are saying that the way things are now is not working well enough and it could be better like: There is an unnecessary healthcare burden on our citizens and our businesses that could be better serviced centrally. We need to be more environmentally responsible than we are now. We need to offer social safety nets without moral strings attached. We need to provide better educational opportunities at the university level and at the vocational level.
4. Russia Probe - There are pages and pages rehashing this all to say that the whole thing was a waste of time and money but this is what happens in a democracy. When our leaders potentially break the law we investigate, sometimes impeach and then we move on. Outside of Mr. Hannity’s audience, I have yet to have a conversation about Trump and Russia or Ukraine since the end of the impeachment. It’s over. Whether we agree with the result it is over. Why are we continuing to rehash it? America really doesn’t care about Russia, Ukraine, the Steele dossier, or any of it. We know it is all a mess and we just want someone to fix it.
5. The Media - How does Mr. Hannity spend so much time attacking the media, of which he is a part, without acknowledging his role in the media (he does occasionally mention this but for the most part he just goes on about the liberal media). Why is FoxNews a special snowflake? No one thinks the other news programs are objective...everyone has a bias...yet Fox spends so much time talking about the liberal media. I don’t see CBS or the Wall Street Journal or NPR attacking the conservative media constantly and complaining about how they don’t get fair treatment.
6. Trumps Successes - “The left hates us because we empowered Trump, and they hate Trump because he disempowered them.” This is not why we hate Trump (although I don’t care at all about Trump, I hate the way he acts, and most of his policies but I don’t know him), we “hate” Trump because he doesn’t represent us and because he is not how we want to be seen as Americans.
A. Regarding his successes there are some positives but then we get to Mr. Hannity’s view of Mr. Trump’s handling of COVID-19 the wheels fall off of the bus. This was too public and too recent to spin positively. Everything about COVID-19 has been a disaster. Mr. Trump refused to overreach when he should have (masks, social distancing, unity) claiming states rights but then feels comfortable overreaching with Federal power when sending in the national guard.
There is so much throughout this about the media hating Trump...which is probably true...because they reflect the views of most Americans. Many Americans find Trump to be distasteful and in no way an accurate representation of the America we live in or want to live in. We are indifferent about him as a human being but we absolutely don’t want him as our global representative.
This book reads like a Fox News extended rant, which I guess it is. There is no clear thesis, and the book as a whole is messy, unfocused, poorly researched, and terribly executed. There are long chapters defending President Trump’s record on Russia and subsequent impeachment and on Mr. Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Russia section takes forever and it appears that Mr. Hannity has somehow written this without actually reading the Mueller report. I wasn’t aware that this was still an open issue that we needed to rehash after the impeachment trial. I really don’t know why Mr. Hannity brought this back up and I have no idea how it relates to defending our freedom and liberty.
I believe the premise of this book, based on the title, is that America is under attack by someone or something and that unless we do something we will die. Mr. Hannity is not clear on what the attack is, who is doing the attacking, what we need to do to defend ourselves, or even who will die. I can’t tell if we will personally die or if America will die.
If you want to understand the American conservative view point this book will not help you...I have been actively reading on this subject and I am really struggling on what you should read to understand it but it is not this. George F. Will’s “The Conservative Sensibility” is better but it doesn’t provide any answers just retrospective nostalgia as policy. Dinesh D’Souza’s “United States of Socialism” is a better choice for understanding socialism from a conservative point of view. Don’t read this book if you want to learn something and certainly not if you care about the future of America because you will not find answers in these pages.
There are a lot of concerning things in this book that I will discuss below but here is a summary:
1. No thesis for this long book
2. Lots of naming calling of Mr. Hannity’s enemies. The name calling seems to be an attempt to dehumanize his political opponents and to build a stereotype of their views. This is unnecessary at best and extremely dangerous at worst
3. Socialism - There is a long rant about how socialism is terrible and will destroy America but Mr. Hannity doesn’t clearly address that there are degrees of a socialist society. He focuses on Marxism which somehow he feels that he needs to systematically discredit while tying American Democrats to it. Nothing in the Democratic position papers or in the majority of democratic American’s are indicating that we need to wage class warfare and put all industry in the hands of the state.
A. There is a lot of discussion of failed Marxist states but nothing about successful social democracies like France, UK, the Nordics. Americans want something more like those societies.
B. As an aside: American’s are saying that the way things are now is not working well enough and it could be better like: There is an unnecessary healthcare burden on our citizens and our businesses that could be better serviced centrally. We need to be more environmentally responsible than we are now. We need to offer social safety nets without moral strings attached. We need to provide better educational opportunities at the university level and at the vocational level.
4. Russia Probe - There are pages and pages rehashing this all to say that the whole thing was a waste of time and money but this is what happens in a democracy. When our leaders potentially break the law we investigate, sometimes impeach and then we move on. Outside of Mr. Hannity’s audience, I have yet to have a conversation about Trump and Russia or Ukraine since the end of the impeachment. It’s over. Whether we agree with the result it is over. Why are we continuing to rehash it? America really doesn’t care about Russia, Ukraine, the Steele dossier, or any of it. We know it is all a mess and we just want someone to fix it.
5. The Media - How does Mr. Hannity spend so much time attacking the media, of which he is a part, without acknowledging his role in the media (he does occasionally mention this but for the most part he just goes on about the liberal media). Why is FoxNews a special snowflake? No one thinks the other news programs are objective...everyone has a bias...yet Fox spends so much time talking about the liberal media. I don’t see CBS or the Wall Street Journal or NPR attacking the conservative media constantly and complaining about how they don’t get fair treatment.
6. Trumps Successes - “The left hates us because we empowered Trump, and they hate Trump because he disempowered them.” This is not why we hate Trump (although I don’t care at all about Trump, I hate the way he acts, and most of his policies but I don’t know him), we “hate” Trump because he doesn’t represent us and because he is not how we want to be seen as Americans.
A. Regarding his successes there are some positives but then we get to Mr. Hannity’s view of Mr. Trump’s handling of COVID-19 the wheels fall off of the bus. This was too public and too recent to spin positively. Everything about COVID-19 has been a disaster. Mr. Trump refused to overreach when he should have (masks, social distancing, unity) claiming states rights but then feels comfortable overreaching with Federal power when sending in the national guard.
There is so much throughout this about the media hating Trump...which is probably true...because they reflect the views of most Americans. Many Americans find Trump to be distasteful and in no way an accurate representation of the America we live in or want to live in. We are indifferent about him as a human being but we absolutely don’t want him as our global representative.
This book reads like a Fox News extended rant, which I guess it is. There is no clear thesis, and the book as a whole is messy, unfocused, poorly researched, and terribly executed. There are long chapters defending President Trump’s record on Russia and subsequent impeachment and on Mr. Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Russia section takes forever and it appears that Mr. Hannity has somehow written this without actually reading the Mueller report. I wasn’t aware that this was still an open issue that we needed to rehash after the impeachment trial. I really don’t know why Mr. Hannity brought this back up and I have no idea how it relates to defending our freedom and liberty.
I believe the premise of this book, based on the title, is that America is under attack by someone or something and that unless we do something we will die. Mr. Hannity is not clear on what the attack is, who is doing the attacking, what we need to do to defend ourselves, or even who will die. I can’t tell if we will personally die or if America will die.
If you want to understand the American conservative view point this book will not help you...I have been actively reading on this subject and I am really struggling on what you should read to understand it but it is not this. George F. Will’s “The Conservative Sensibility” is better but it doesn’t provide any answers just retrospective nostalgia as policy. Dinesh D’Souza’s “United States of Socialism” is a better choice for understanding socialism from a conservative point of view. Don’t read this book if you want to learn something and certainly not if you care about the future of America because you will not find answers in these pages.
January 15, 2021
Pretty disappointed as this was the same old Republican talking points that added nothing new. Full of outright lies, blatant propaganda, and plain delusion. Hannity lambasts his opponents for stretching the truth and being biased but then cites laughably partisan sources such as the Heritage Foundation and Project Veritas to support his half-baked narratives. Consists of such gems as:
- Biden only won the primary because of a "hard left turn"
- Pretending AOC actually runs the party (I wish)
- Acting like Bernie and the Squad are secretly Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries instead of mild social democrats that virtually any other First World nation would consider center-left at best.
- Claiming the left is united behind accepting only one true viewpoint while ignoring the obvious reality of the constant infighting and division. I get that all these rightwing political pundits have to act like the left is a united enemy in order to continue the grift, but it continues to be very difficult to take them seriously when something so fundamental to the left is so constantly ignored.
- That we live in an era of "big government". The only parts of the government that are getting bigger are the parts that conservatives favor such as the military and police or the NSA that was given its power originally by the Right. By "big scary government" Hannity obviously is just talking about social services and regulations, which have been gutted for decades since the Neoliberal Era started with Reagan.
- Going off the previous point, Hannity claims that the Gilded Age was a golden era, and not a horrific time of abuse, exploitation and monopolistic power like it was in reality. I'm no big proponent of government myself (lean toward anarchism), but we already tried the limited government route with capitalism and it was a disaster.
- His chapter on American history was even more pathetic than I expected it to be, with a grossly misinformed view of the beginnings of the country. He pretends that the country was founded on freedom instead of slavery and genocide. Hannity doesn't see any contradiction in the founding fathers claiming "all men were created equal" while owning slaves and only allowing landowning white men to vote, and makes the oft-repeated absurd rightwing claim that the Constitution paved the way for the abolition of slavery, even though the country that the US broke away from abolished it decades earlier. Furthermore, he makes the laughable claim that after World War 2 the US exercised "humble restraint", conveniently leaving out the uncomfortable fact of the US supporting violent coups against many democratically elected governments in order to install fascists.
- While even leftists can agree about the bias of mainstream media outlets like CNN or MSNBC (though I'd hardly call a neoliberal bias a "leftist bias"), he ruins it by the ridiculous assertion that Fox News is "fair and balanced".
- Complains that the left calls the right bigots while outright saying that gay people don't deserve equal rights. "Religious liberty" means nothing more than "I have a right to be a bigot without consequences".
- Blah blah blah climate change doesn't exist. Repeats the false narrative that the left claims the world will end in 12 years (no, that's when irreversible feedback loops set in, there's a difference). Repeatedly cites ridiculous Heritage Foundation lies such as even removing all CO2 emissions would only prevent 0.2 degrees of warming.
- His section on Obama actually made me more disappointed in his presidency, but for different reasons. It's clear that he shifted significantly right compared to the younger Obama once in office, and squandered a lot of potential with continuing failing Neoliberal policies.
- Hannity makes an attempt to outline what he calls "outstanding achievements" of the Trump administration. Many have either little to do with Trump himself (such as merely signing a bill that has huge bipartisan support, and almost all wage growth to low-income earners came in states that raised the minimum wage) or aren't actually good (border walls are a huge waste of money and don't accomplish their primary goal)
- No, Trump did not show "masterful" leadership during the pandemic, this was perhaps the most absurd claim made in the entire book. The China ban accomplished little as the virus came from Italy, and his constant downplaying of the virus and of masks got a lot of people killed.
- Pretty ironic that Hannity calls his opponents snowflakes when he spends the majority of the book whining about how unfairly treated and put down conservatives are in America. Got to keep fueling that culture war with your faux outrage I guess. It's also pretty funny considering how Trump did not update his platform from 2016, and campaigned almost exclusively on white grievance politics. Conservatives weaponize identity politics just as much if not more than the Democrats do and this book does little more than continue the conservative victim complex and the trend of every single rightwing talking point being projection.
- I'm no fan of the Democrats, but seeing as how the election was a massive failure for Trump and the GOP means this book did not come close to achieving its goals. And now with the majority of the party believing in nonsensical theories about voter fraud, there's a decent chance of a fraction in the party occuring in the near future, or at least significant turnout issues like what happened in the Georgia runoff elections. Hell most of MAGA hates Fox News now. Excellent work guys, and enjoy the loss of ratings that I'm sure will lead to lots of self-reflection about how we got here.
- Biden only won the primary because of a "hard left turn"
- Pretending AOC actually runs the party (I wish)
- Acting like Bernie and the Squad are secretly Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries instead of mild social democrats that virtually any other First World nation would consider center-left at best.
- Claiming the left is united behind accepting only one true viewpoint while ignoring the obvious reality of the constant infighting and division. I get that all these rightwing political pundits have to act like the left is a united enemy in order to continue the grift, but it continues to be very difficult to take them seriously when something so fundamental to the left is so constantly ignored.
- That we live in an era of "big government". The only parts of the government that are getting bigger are the parts that conservatives favor such as the military and police or the NSA that was given its power originally by the Right. By "big scary government" Hannity obviously is just talking about social services and regulations, which have been gutted for decades since the Neoliberal Era started with Reagan.
- Going off the previous point, Hannity claims that the Gilded Age was a golden era, and not a horrific time of abuse, exploitation and monopolistic power like it was in reality. I'm no big proponent of government myself (lean toward anarchism), but we already tried the limited government route with capitalism and it was a disaster.
- His chapter on American history was even more pathetic than I expected it to be, with a grossly misinformed view of the beginnings of the country. He pretends that the country was founded on freedom instead of slavery and genocide. Hannity doesn't see any contradiction in the founding fathers claiming "all men were created equal" while owning slaves and only allowing landowning white men to vote, and makes the oft-repeated absurd rightwing claim that the Constitution paved the way for the abolition of slavery, even though the country that the US broke away from abolished it decades earlier. Furthermore, he makes the laughable claim that after World War 2 the US exercised "humble restraint", conveniently leaving out the uncomfortable fact of the US supporting violent coups against many democratically elected governments in order to install fascists.
- While even leftists can agree about the bias of mainstream media outlets like CNN or MSNBC (though I'd hardly call a neoliberal bias a "leftist bias"), he ruins it by the ridiculous assertion that Fox News is "fair and balanced".
- Complains that the left calls the right bigots while outright saying that gay people don't deserve equal rights. "Religious liberty" means nothing more than "I have a right to be a bigot without consequences".
- Blah blah blah climate change doesn't exist. Repeats the false narrative that the left claims the world will end in 12 years (no, that's when irreversible feedback loops set in, there's a difference). Repeatedly cites ridiculous Heritage Foundation lies such as even removing all CO2 emissions would only prevent 0.2 degrees of warming.
- His section on Obama actually made me more disappointed in his presidency, but for different reasons. It's clear that he shifted significantly right compared to the younger Obama once in office, and squandered a lot of potential with continuing failing Neoliberal policies.
- Hannity makes an attempt to outline what he calls "outstanding achievements" of the Trump administration. Many have either little to do with Trump himself (such as merely signing a bill that has huge bipartisan support, and almost all wage growth to low-income earners came in states that raised the minimum wage) or aren't actually good (border walls are a huge waste of money and don't accomplish their primary goal)
- No, Trump did not show "masterful" leadership during the pandemic, this was perhaps the most absurd claim made in the entire book. The China ban accomplished little as the virus came from Italy, and his constant downplaying of the virus and of masks got a lot of people killed.
- Pretty ironic that Hannity calls his opponents snowflakes when he spends the majority of the book whining about how unfairly treated and put down conservatives are in America. Got to keep fueling that culture war with your faux outrage I guess. It's also pretty funny considering how Trump did not update his platform from 2016, and campaigned almost exclusively on white grievance politics. Conservatives weaponize identity politics just as much if not more than the Democrats do and this book does little more than continue the conservative victim complex and the trend of every single rightwing talking point being projection.
- I'm no fan of the Democrats, but seeing as how the election was a massive failure for Trump and the GOP means this book did not come close to achieving its goals. And now with the majority of the party believing in nonsensical theories about voter fraud, there's a decent chance of a fraction in the party occuring in the near future, or at least significant turnout issues like what happened in the Georgia runoff elections. Hell most of MAGA hates Fox News now. Excellent work guys, and enjoy the loss of ratings that I'm sure will lead to lots of self-reflection about how we got here.
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