Reasons to Vote for Democrats
Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide is a satirical book by Michael J. Knowles. It consists of 266 pages, with the majority of it being blank. It was a best-selling book on Amazon.com in March 2017. Summary and background. The book was divided to 10 "chapters": Economics, Foreign Policy, Civil Rights, Education, Homeland Security, Energy, Jobs, Crime, Immigration, and Values and Principles, all of which are blank. The book contains a quote from Thucydides. The end of the book is a bibliography of where Knowles allegedly obtained the "information" in it from . Knowles, in the book, called it the "most exhaustively researched and coherently argued Democrat[ic] Party apologia to date." With regard to the lack of content, Knowles said via Fox News that he has been "observing the Democratic Party for at least 10 years now, and when I observed their record and reasons to vote for them — on reasons of economics or foreign policy or homeland security or civil rights and so on — I realized it was probably best to just leave all the pages blank." Knowles said in the book that to be able to be qualified for distribution, "Lefty  lawyers require that we state the book is mostly blank and contains precisely 1,235 words." Reception. "Reasons to Vote for Democrats" ranked number 85 in Amazon as of April 2017 as quoted by the "Los Angeles Times", and became a bestseller on March. Critic Roger Kimball wrote a long review in "The Weekly Standard", asserting that "Knowles has matched matter and message with rare economy" and that "it is for the substance of his analysis that Knowles's study will be remembered." In the book, Ben Shapiro, founder of "The Daily Wire" through which Knowles' show, "The Michael Knowles Show , is hosted, called it Thorough", and Michelle Malkin called it "A real page-turner!" "The Guardian" called it "a product worthy of Reggie Perrin’s Grot shop – the store opened to sell tat in David Nobbs's magnificent satire of modern life." On April 17, 2017, US President Donald Trump mentioned the book on Twitter, calling it "a great book for your reading enjoyment". Knowles responded by stating, "I'm honored that President Trump enjoyed this important work of scholarship." Other critics were less complimentary. John Wagner of "The Washington Post" said that it is "a book that suggests Democrats  have no ideas". Another "WaPo" writer, Philip Bump, said that Trump promoting the book is a dirty political tactic. The newspaper also claimed that Trump has faced criticism for "crossing ethical lines by using the White House to promote commercial products".