The Steal review: stethoscope for a democracy close to cardiac arrest

Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague have produced an indispensable and alarming ground-level record of how Donald Trump's attempt to steal the 2020 election played out in precincts and ballot-counting centers in key states

In their terrific new book, the veteran reporters Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague argue that the mob that invaded the Capitol in Washington almost exactly a year ago had no more chance of overthrowing the US government than hippies in 1967 had trying to levitate the Pentagon".

The real insurrection" was the one led by Trump and his coterie of sycophants" in Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona. It was only slightly better organized than the mob but considerably more calculated and dangerous".