The Intimidation Game, Kimberley Strassel
The Intimidation Game, Kimberley Strassel
1 Rating(s)
List: $31.99 | Sale: $22.40
Club: $15.99

The Intimidation Game
How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech

Author: Kimberley Strassel

Narrator: Jennifer Edges

Unabridged: 13 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 06/21/2016


Synopsis

From Kim Strassel-one of the preeminent political columnists writing today and member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board-comes an insightful, alarming look at how the Left, once the champion of civil liberties, is today orchestrating a coordinated campaign to bully Americans out of free speech.

For nearly 40 years, Washington and much of the American public have held up disclosure and campaign finance laws as ideals, and the path to cleaner and freer elections. This book will show, through first-hand accounts, how both have been hijacked by the Left as weapons against free speech and free association, becoming the most powerful tools of those intent on silencing their political opposition. The Intimidation Game provides a chilling expose of political scare tactics and overreach, including:

How Citizens United set off a wave of liberal harassment against conservative politicians The targeting of Tea Party groups by the IRS How Wisconsin prosecutors, state AGs, and a Democratic Congress shut down political activists and businesses The politicization by the Obama administration of a host of government agencies including the FEC, FCC and the SEC The Intimidation Game will shine a much-needed light on how liberal governance and the Democratic machine bullies the political process.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim Hunter on July 05, 2016

A sobering, sometimes infuriating account of the deliberate and ongoing efforts to shut down free speech of which the left does not approve. A must read for people of all political persuasions; for this movement effects and endangers us all.........more

Goodreads review by L.A. on July 12, 2016

Readers with a political interest will either embrace or else not read this book, so this review is not an attempt to change minds. Thought Kremlinologists were only needed for Russia? The Intimidation Game lays bare the intensive, aggressive approaches the left has adopted to strangle all opposition......more

Goodreads review by Amy on July 14, 2016

Frightening look at the Obama administration's abuse of power Have you hesitated to express your political opinion? Why? Because if it is not PC, or just poorly worded, you might be publicly humiliated. Imagine the President of the US personally calling you out for public humiliation for donating to......more

Goodreads review by Tom on July 12, 2016

Simply chilling Everybody on the left should be as disturbed by this book as those on the right. The abuse of government power to stifle speech, even by the little guy, is staggering. Those of the left might reap what they have sown. The alphabet soup of federal agencies, personal networks, et al, th......more

Goodreads review by John on February 02, 2018

Chilling. Strassel writes effectively on how the State at all levels seeks to stifle citizens' free speech. Whether the gov't uses the IRS, FEC, or the SEC to hound groups that object to its policies or has AG's and the police raid and subpoena those who it deems are acting against the State's inter......more


Quotes

"Progressives' objective is to extend government's regulatory reach ever-deeper into society's dynamics. Strassel reveals how fast and how far this project has been expanded to include an especially sinister objective: Empowering government to control political campaign speech-speech about the government's composition and behavior. Her frightening reports come from many fronts in this war on America's open society. This book is a fire bell in a darkening night."—George F. Will

"There have been a lot of good books of late decrying the increasingly repressive climate towards free speech. But none have connected the dots between the Obama White House, Congressional Democrats, and the spider web of 'grassroots' organizations the way Kim Strassel does in THE INTIMIDATION GAME. It is required reading for those who want to know what's behind the supposedly spontaneous daily outrages we see every day."—Jonah Goldberg

"Public shaming encouraged by leading political figures. Pre-dawn police raids. Federal agencies targeting groups and individuals because of their political views. It's hard to believe these things are happening-and taking place with increasing frequency-in the United States. But they are. And in this searing indictment of the systematic attempt of the political left to shut down political debates they cannot win-Kimberly Strassel provides the often-horrifying details. THE INTIMIDATION GAME is a shocking and assiduously well-reported chronicle of the illiberal tactics of the new progressives-and a must-read for anyone who wants to understand American politics today."—Stephen Hayes

"Strassel draws a timely, convincing, and alarming picture of liberal governance and a

Democratic machine that's eager to bully resistant citizens."—Publishers Weekly

"An eye-opening lesson in the law of unintended consequences: where "a vast new disclosure regime" intended to curb corruption has spawned a corruption all its own."—Kirkus Reviews