'I don’t think anyone reading that first chapter can honestly say, ‘Oh, that could never happen.’ They have to say, ‘Holy crap, we’re 85 percent there,’” CBS News star Major Garrett said about his new book with elections expert David Becker.
In the books written about the plot to steal the 2020 election and the violent insurrection that followed, none have led with a 50-year-old high school teacher from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, afraid of a civil war.
The at-times distressing book tells the story of how democracy survived an unprecedented assault in 2020, often through the election officials who served as its soldiers. Featuring interviews with those in several pivotal states, lawmakers who fought to defend the election , and political historians, the 283-page account reflects on the impact of the attack and how best to prevent it in the future.
“After Jan. 6, David and I assumed that that would be the ultimate moment in which everyone would have said, ‘This is the abyss and we will all walk back from this abyss in a bipartisan way,’” Garrett said. “By the summer, it was clear that wasn’t happening, that there was already a recasting and a whitewashing of what Jan. 6 was, and a concerted effort by some Republicans, and certainly former President [Donald] Trump, to deny there was anything really wrong with Jan. 6.
The portrayals are dramatic, if a tad alarmist, answers to the question: What could serve as the genesis of a modern-day civil war?
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