The Plot to Change America, Mike Gonzalez
The Plot to Change America, Mike Gonzalez
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The Plot to Change America
How Identity Politics Is Dividing the Land of the Free

Author: Mike Gonzalez

Narrator: Tim Getman

Unabridged: 9 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/28/2020

Synopsis

The Plot to Change America exposes the myths that help identity politics perpetuate itself. This book reveals what has really happened, explains why it is urgent to change course, and offers a strategy to do so. Though we should not fool ourselves into thinking that it will be easy to eliminate identity politics, we should not overthink it, either. Identity politics relies on the creation of groups and then on giving people incentives to adhere to them. If we eliminate group making and the enticements, we can get rid of identity politics.The first myth that this book exposes is that identity politics is a grassroots movement, when from the beginning it has been, and continues to be, an elite project. For too long, we have lived with the fairy tale that America has organically grown into a nation gripped by victimhood and identitarian division; that it is all the result of legitimate demands by minorities for recognition or restitutions for past wrongs. The second myth is that identity politics is a response to the demographic change this country has undergone since immigration laws were radically changed in 1965. Another myth we are told is that to fight these changes is as depraved as it is futile, since by 2040, America will be a minority-majority country, anyway. This book helps to explain that none of these things are necessarily true.

About Mike Gonzalez

Mike Gonzalez is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy in Washington, DC, where he writes on critical race theory, national identity, diversity, multiculturalism, assimilation, and nationalism, as well as foreign policy in general. He spent close to twenty years as a journalist, fifteen of them writing from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He left journalism to join the Bush administration, serving as a speechwriter for Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, before moving on to the State Department’s European Bureau, where he wrote speeches and op-eds.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Smellick on October 26, 2020

Identity politics is racist, meant to divide Americans. Mike Gonzalez reveals the history of identity politics, current state of identity politics, the need to dismantle identity politics, and how we must fight all of it in this book. I highly recommend this well researched, well written, informativ......more

Goodreads review by Teal on August 08, 2022

It didn't really say anything new. If you like conservative pundits like the Daily Wire guys or Stephen Crowder then you've already heard everything this book has to say. Also, like the Daily Wire guys, Gonzalez gets all up in arms over EVERYTHING diversity-related, even if there isn't anything wron......more

Goodreads review by Dan on January 02, 2022

Gonzalez describes how the Left is using invented racial categories to splinter the American people and form factions that work for their destructive agenda. Gonzalez calls for a new civil rights movement that neglects the skin color of individuals. Right now people fight to be categorized as part o......more

Goodreads review by Laredo Regular on October 12, 2021

I only read part 1 of the book because that was the only section that I got the book for and it gave me the necessary information to do further research. Based on what I have read, It should be titled "Identity Theft: How yesterday's White people steal from Black descendants of American chattel slav......more

Goodreads review by Tom on July 06, 2021

This is a must read. The author describes the beginning of this movement as the farm workers in California beginning to organize. He writes about how the identity politics has morphed from organizing around ideals to a business that fails its members while lining the pockets of the elite leaders. Ca......more

Quotes

“Mike Gonzalez is a tremendous voice for conservatism. In his new book, The Plot to Change America, Mike irrefutably wrecks the identity politics arguments of the political Left, which have been tearing the country apart for years.” Ben Shapiro, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Michael Gonzalez shows us that the idea of ‘identity’ did not just innocently emerge. It was invented for the purpose of dividing citizens into groups to be used as political pawns in a plot to change America. Identity politics turns citizens into ‘innocent victims’ in need of governmental carve-outs, and promotes brokers who do their bidding. Gonzalez lays out just how this madness can be brought to an end. A very timely book. Highly recommended.” Joshua Mitchell, author of American Awakening

“Persuasive and clarifying…Gonzalez reminds Americans of all races and ethnicities that we are better off choosing individual agency, pride, and success over a culture of victimhood.” Ying Ma, author of Chinese Girl in the Ghetto

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