Jonah Goldberg is a great writer and an even better researcher. In this book, which I will quote often in maxim posts, he goes down the rabbit hole chasing Donald Trump and ends up far from his original big picture view of the our political trends.

Goldberg sees the world pretty much the same way that I do and he write about it much better than I do. So if you want to know my world view read Suicide of the West. I’m more sanguine than Goldberg about the future. I think we’ll muddle through. The “Miracle” of democratic capitalism has created so much wealth that we have surpluses everywhere for the first time in history. This gives us the running room to figure out how to accommodate the romantic angst that infects so many. We survived Marx and Lenin and we will survive Madero and Sanders.

If you want to see a balanced conservative view read this book.