I Alone Can Fix It

What is it about American politics I find so fascinating? I guess there’s a huge dichotomy between the country’s developments (Charles Fritz installing the first solar panels on the roof of his New York home in 1884, for example) and their flagrant inability to get gun violence under control (second highest gun-related death rate in the world, after Brazil). Politics oversees all of this. 

For four years, The States had a reality TV star, twice-bankrupted businessman, as a president. So of course, his one term ended in a riot. 

I’ve spent the last 3 or so months reading I Alone Can Fix It, an expose on Donald Trump’s final year in office. Written by two Washington Post journalists, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, the book details, in chronological order, the numerous challenges facing the President that year, and his blatant inability to rise to them professionally. 

What becomes apparent quite early on in the book- with the final year looming ahead- is that Trump was not happy to concede defeat in the election, were it to happen. He was, as noticed by many other journalists, living in a fantasy world. The book leaves no doubt that, as the results of the 2020 election started to show Joe Biden as the President Elect, Trump was already planning the insurrection. Those Republican senators voting not guilty in his trial were nothing other than traitorous bastards. 

Compiled by hours of interviews with key people in the Trump administration, and taking in the perspectives of local law enforcement and The National Guard, IACFI shows the gradual decline of any semblance of order and leadership from the White House, resulting directly in a deadly insurrection. 5 people lost their lives on January 6th. Hundreds of others were injured. The book leaves no doubt that one man ultimately was responsible: Donald J Trump. 

IACFI Is a weighty, clinical expose, brilliantly compiled and presented by two of America’s finest journalists.