President Trump Must Stick to ‘America First’
‘Billionaire at the Barricades’ explains roots, appeal of president’s agenda — warns against derailment by elite.
Laura Ingraham’s new book about the conservative movement and the election of President Donald Trump, due out later this year, offers crucial insight into a fundamental question: Can Trump go to battle with the Washington political establishment, the media, and special interests — and win? Or will the president be blocked, and the populist conservative movement he now leads be brought to a standstill?
Ingraham’s book, entitled “Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump,” will be published in October 2017 by All Points Books, a new imprint of St. Martin’s Press, focusing on politics and current affairs.
“As President Trump works to stay true to this pragmatic, populist approach to domestic and foreign policy, he’ll need to clear many barricades.”
In the book, Ingraham, editor-in-chief of LifeZette, warns that it would be disastrous for Trump to jettison the populist ideals that led him to victory.
“The ‘America First’ agenda appealed to millions of Americans who are fed up with politics as usual, stagnant wages, open borders, and unending wars in the Middle East,” Ingraham said to LifeZette.
Ingraham noted that her unique insight as a believer in the potency of Trump’s candidacy allowed her to see through the Trump doomsayers in the press.
“Unlike so many of my colleagues in the media, I instantly understood Trump’s appeal and ignored those who repeatedly wrote his political obituary,” Ingraham said in a prepared statement released by the book’s publisher.
In “Billionaire at the Barricades,” Ingraham argues that Trump is truly President Ronald Reagan’s heir and that he remade the Reagan Revolution in his own image, forming a new coalition of voters disgusted with the corporatist agenda of GOP elites.
She reveals several previously unreported details behind Trump’s victory and the possible pitfalls that lie ahead for him.
“As President Trump works to stay true to this pragmatic, populist approach to domestic and foreign policy, he’ll need to clear many barricades,” she told LifeZette. “The media, the old establishment, the consultancy class, and the special interests are eager to drag him and our government back into the ‘swamp’ he wants to drain.”