Overall, the idea that you can separate a person's deeds from the person themself is a strange one that I don't understand at all.
Truth matters. People's actions matter. The idea that truth doesn't exist is how we got to this shitty spot in the first place.
This isn't a cookbook we're talking about. This is a systematic collection of lies designed to inflame and enrage.
This book is part of a long series of deliberate lies told by Trump supporters.
If you recall, Trump's lies about COVID killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, horribly, and continues to kill people each day. Don't believe it? Here's The Lancet, one of the world's great medical journals, with a detailed analysis of exactly why Trump's lies and stalling killed so many Americans
Now the same group has spread the provably false lie that the 2020 election was stolen. The Republicans have declared that they will never certify another Democratic win, and are busy putting openly and proudly corrupt Secretaries of State who have sworn to cheat.
And what is this Winston Marshall's apology or explanation? Why, the purest bullshit
Read the article. He simply never even deals with the matter at hand.
Does he stand by his comments? What are his actual opinions? Given that the book has heavily criticized for lack of factuality, with copious primary sources, what does he now think about it?
Why, he says nothing!, aside from calling Andy Ngo, the paid liar, brave. Calling a paid liar "brave" shits all over the concept of "brave".
And what about all the other lies of the right? The COVID lies? The election lies? The vaccination lies? Trump himself? Where does Winston Marshall, the scion of an incredibly rich family stand on these things? (Hey, his father owns part of GB News which showcases such foul Fascists as Nigel Farage, the pathological liar about Brexit and proud racist.)
Why, we have no idea what Marshall thinks at all, even about the book he commented on!
Why? Why do you think this is that Winston Aubrey Aladar deBalkan Marshall has been completely opaque about what he really thinks? Do you think it's because he's secretly a Labour supporter or a Bidenist and doesn't want to tell anyone?
Did we get a "While I do not support the horrible policies of Donald Trump in anyway, I feel that some of the statements in this book, like these ones [X, Y, Z] deserve a second look"? I might not agree with that comment, but I could respect it.
Nope! We get a lot of empty bullshit comparing himself to Churchill and Solzhenitsyn (doesn't your bullshit meter go off just a little there?), but absolutely no explanation as to what he actually thinks.
Now, you can believe that this guy is very very secretly the next Eugene Debs, but all the evidence points to the simple reason that he was so careful to say nothing - because his far right-wing beliefs would appall most of his audience.
