The Liberal Politics & Current Events Book Club discussion

We'll be reading Griftopia: Bubble Machines Vampire Squids and the Long Con That Is Breaking America by Matt Taibbi through the end of December.

This thread can be used to give book reviews as well as for a general discussion of the book. Please feel free to start a new discussion in the book club folder if you'd like to focus on specific aspects of or ideas from the book.

I read this one about a month ago and it was quite good.
I did not always agree with his conclusions and in some ways I thought his explanations were a little to over simplistic. But I think it was quite good.