Telly Davidson writes at National Review Online about a new book that assesses Bill and Hillary Clinton and their impact on American political history.

Picture this: A norm-shattering, media-manipulating Boomer outsider dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct gets elected president with less than half the popular vote — after a quixotic gadfly disrupts the aging, humdrum, establishment-friendly standard-bearer of the other party. That president then promptly begins to treat the White House itself as a reality-TV show, infuriating Washington insiders and running an administration so dodgy that a special prosecutor is appointed. His opponents are reduced to praying that said prosecutor will uncover the magic bullet to finally remove him, and set politics back to the way things were before.

Sound familiar? …

… Now, MSNBC star Steve Kornacki seeks to take on the decade that defined our generation (Kornacki and I are roughly the same age) and set the stage for everything that’s happened since. The result, The Red and the Blue, is a political procedural that sets out to explain how we went from giga-landslides in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s to Electoral College squeakers today, how Republicans disappeared from the coasts and Democrats died their final deaths in the South and Midwest. …

… When they exited the White House, the Clintons left behind a Democratic party that working class, rural, and/or religious whites had become almost allergic to, one more dependent on African-American and Latino voters than ever. Donald Trump cruised to triumph in 2016 using all of the dog whistles and wedge issues that Gingrich, Rove, Buchanan, and Ross Perot had refined to perfection.