Salena Zito
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“Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland” (2025)
Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland
“It's Complicated: How Our Nation Is Coming Together and Falling Apart” (2021)
Journalist and author Salena Zito is celebrated for uncovering, as Rush Limbaugh explains, 'an amazing national political realignment that was--and still is--completely invisible to the Wizards of Smart who inhabit our distant capital.' She finds America not through the media and Washington establishment but those she meets driving on the back roads from Pittsburgh to Cleveland. They are the misunderstood and forgotten men and women who elected President Donald Trump, and those unexpected voters who continue to shape our political landscape. In this collection of Zito's syndicated columns from 2019, she provides a unique look at the cultural and political moments of today. Read about small-business struggles and hometown heroes, our cultural divide and communities coming together, to see where we could be headed in 2020.
“The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics” (2019)
“Unlike most retellings of the 2016 election, The Great Revolt provides a cohesive, non-wild-eyed argument about where the Republican Party could be headed.” Political experts were wrong about the 2016 election and they continue to blow it, predicting the coming demise of the president without pausing to consider the durability of the winds that swept him into office. Salena Zito and Brad Todd have traveled over 27,000 miles of country roads to interview more than three hundred Trump voters in ten swing counties. What emerges is a portrait of a group of citizens who span job descriptions, income brackets, education levels, and party allegiances, united by their desire to be part of a movement larger than themselves. They want to put pragmatism before ideology and localism before globalism, and demand the respect they deserve from Washington. The 2016 election signaled a realignment in American politics that will outlast any one president. Zito and Todd reframe the discussion of the “Trump voter” to answer the question, What’s next?
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