No hope
Subtitle: why I left the GOP (and you should too)
By: Jimmy LaSalvia
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781510702387
Subjects: Political culture; Conservatism; Political consultants; Biography; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Description: "A behind-the-scenes look at how the GOP is out of touch with Americans today and why more voters should consider "No Party." No Hope is for disaffected conservatives and moderates as well as liberals who are fed up with the political party system. Forty-three percent of Americans now identify as Independents. Many of them are right of center and used to be Republicans. In No Hope, former Republican Jimmy LaSalvia, cofounder of GOProud, which was one of the highest-profile gay political organizations, will share what he did to ignite change in the Republican Party. But ultimately LaSalvia determined there was no hope that conservatives would evolve on important cultural issues-revealing the party as an untenable coalition that includes the tolerance of bigotry. No Hope chronicles Jimmy's evolution from team-player Republican to free-thinking Independent and includes entertaining stories and anecdotes about some of the biggest names in politics today, including Donald Trump, Ann Coulter, Roger Ailes, Reince Priebus, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, and others. No Hope also exposes some of the ugliest anti-gay operators in Washington, DC. In early 2014, Jimmy announced his resignation from the Republican Party and changed his voter registration to join the new majority of Independent voters, receiving significant media attention. Now, in No Hope, he tells all and, in the most entertaining outing in political book history, breaks apart the current two-party system to energize democracy"--
Table of contents: title: Independence; title: Born this way; title: The Tea Party; title: Winning team; title: Hand-to-hand combat; title: Primarily crazy; title: Gays for Mitt; title: Faking it for Mitt; title: 47 percent; title: The vote; title: The autopsy; title: No hope; title: The Fox News blowtorch; title: Normal people.