CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

To the Reader

Part I: Why He Can’t Do It Again

1: One Term

2: How We Got Him

3: Those Three States

4: Embracing an Interloper

5: A Presidential Cheat Sheet

6: The 93 Percent Turnout

7: Kansas?

8: Irregular Elections

9: Surrendered Seats

10: Rallying the Flock

11: Electors: When They Supersede

12: How Representative Is the House?

13: How Skewed Is the Senate?

14: Five-Four Justice

15: Two Town Halls

16: A New Electorate

17: A Partisan President

Part II: Republicans and Their Party

18: The Concordat

19: A Men’s Den

20: Policing Pregnancies

21: Imposing Normality

22: The Republican South

23: A White Haven

24: Anti–Affirmative Action

25: Colleges, Climate, and Other Chimeras

26: Lethal Weapons

27: Fortress America

28: Three Lies

29: Conservative or Populist: Neither or Both?

30: November 3, 2020

Endnotes