Resistance (At All Costs)

by Kimberley Strassel

  By all means, also engage at a national level. If you are unhappy that Resistance leaders are abusing the impeachment process, or refusing to hold FBI leaders to account, or giving bureaucrats a pass on inappropriate behavior—say so. Call, write, show up at their state office. Let them know how unhappy you are. You might think that one voice is nothing. But you aren’t one voice. Millions of Americans feel the same fervor about keeping our country on a strong, viable, constitutional path. All those voices together cannot be ignored.

  Acknowledgments

  My thanks to the team at Twelve for all their help on this second adventure together. Sean Desmond has a rare gift for inspiring an author to embrace a new project, and then further convincing them to maintain that enthusiasm. (Even on the third draft.) My gratitude to Jay Mandel at William Morris Endeavour for the encouragement and for making things happen.

  I am fortunate to work for a company that stands behind its reporters. I’m also blessed to work with so many talented journalists at the WSJ editorial pages. A special salute to Paul Gigot, for so steadily leading our pages in these political times. Also a shout-out to William McGurn and Holman Jenkins, for their own insightful reporting on the Russia-collusion saga.

  Throughout that saga, only a handful of reporters and analysts proved willing to buck the conventional wisdom. We all learned a lot from each other, and I am grateful for this broader group’s efforts. They include Byron York at the Washington Examiner, Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist, Andrew McCarthy at National Review, Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller News Foundation, Catherine Herridge at Fox News, John Solomon at The Hill, and Sara Carter. My thanks, too, for the many Fox News hosts who made a point of spreading the truth.

  I’m fortunate over the years to have developed a network of Washington sources who are smart, dogged, and honest. They can’t be named here, but I am immensely appreciative of their investigative work and their willingness to trust me with their findings.

  My youngest sister ordered me to acknowledge her by name in this book, and as usual she is getting what she wants. (Kidding, kidding.) Thank you, Tish, and Kandis, and Julie, for the Facetime chats and calls that always make me wish I was in Oregon, and glad I have never tried pineapple vodka. Mom, you are the best. Your cheerful outlook and work ethic are both inspirations, and they always encourage me to push on a few more hours.

  My warmest thanks go to my nearest and dearest. My crazy world would not work without the hourly love and support of Nicholas Van Dyke, my husband. For every hour I put into this book, he put in several more managing home, work, and children. He has the harder job, and yet he does it with extraordinary cheer.

  As for those remarkable kids: It was late March 2019, when my youngest child finally lost patience. Mueller filed his report on a Friday, requiring me to (once again) halt weekend plans, this time to go on TV. The seven-year-old sat down to pen an outraged letter. “Dear Bob Mueller,” she printed. “You ruined my weekend. We were at our cabin, but had to get up early and leave so Mom could work. Also, thanks to you, we weren’t able to get our new puppy. Try doing your work on a Tuesday!!!”

  Between the special counsel and this book, my children have had less mom-time than they would probably like. But they are the most understanding of kiddos and consummate good sports. Oliver, Stella, and Frances—thank you.

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  About the Author

  Kimberley Strassel is a member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. She writes editorials as well as the weekly “Potomac Watch” column about politics. Ms. Strassel joined Dow Jones & Company in 1994, working in the news department of the Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels and then in London. She moved to New York in 1999 and soon thereafter joined the Journal’s editorial page, working as a features editor and then as an editorial writer. She assumed her current position in 2005. She is a Fox News contributor, a 2014 Bradley Price recipient, and the author of the national bestseller The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech. An Oregon native, she attended Princeton University.