Taking back Trump's America : why we lost the White House and how we'll win it back

Introduction

Part one: The beginning and the beginning of the end. A restive lion wintering in Mar-a-Lago

Five strategic failures & the fall of the White House of Trump

An insider's look at a West Wing dumpster

Part two: Prelude to a post-mortem. The coming China wars gets my Trump ball rolling

A two-day Big Apple popover turns into a five-year tour

The November 9thers cometh and an RNC original sin

An ambassador strategy and some shuttle diplomacy

What a handshake deal is worth in Manhattan

Part three: Let the West Wing games being & lessons learned. American carnage, cheap seats, and a cabinet of clowns

My hard pratfall from Trumpian grace

Process delayed, diluted, or derailed is Trump policy denied

A "where's my Peter" battle cry and Oval Office resurrection

Bad personnel PLUS bad process is bad policy is bad politics

Part four: From China hawks to China appeasers. The road to reelection runs through Beijing

A Wilbur Ross ZTE belly flop

Whiffing and waffling on Huawei

My TikTok Aaron Sorkin West Wing moment

A slave labor debacle debases the Situation Room

Part five: That's the way the blue wall didn't crumble. The iron MAGA triangle of populist economic nationalism

A deplorable basket of buy American executive orders

The last MAGA tango in Clyde

Part six: The Hillary Clinton campaign on quaaludes. From Trump force one to Hillary's Hindenburg

The Bannon cavalry rides into a Kushner ditch

Part seven: Playing checkers in speed chess world. Stimulus interruptus and the Trump MAGA trillion

V-shaped Kudlow nonsense in a K-shaped world

Part eight: Ink by the barrel, cable by the mile. The inglorious never-Trump media bastards

Dominate the news cycle or be dominated

A White House confederacy of media dunces

Fauci, Russia, and the ghost of Buch v. Gore

Part nine: Take it back in 2024. Tearing down the Pelosi House in 2022

No Facebook, no Fox, no problem

Good personnel is good policy is good politics