It's the end of America as we know it and conservatives feel fine

After President Obama captured the White House in 2008, the top-selling conservative books about him basically fell into two categories: 1) unflattering explanations of how America was tricked into voting for this man (like David Horowitz’s “Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model”); and 2) all-out broadsides against his tenure in office (like Edward Klein’s “The Amateur”).

These books may have been a therapeutic read for many conservatives, allowing them to wallow in their denial and anger, but neither genre really helped the movement prepare to defeat Obama’s re-election bid in 2012.