Max Boot Quotes
To win in 2020, a Democratic nominee will need to win back voters in key Midwestern states who supported Trump in 2016.
Boot, Max. "How Democrats can win in 2020." The Washington Post, WP Company, 2019.
He was explaining why his candidate, Earl Warren, refused to debate his opponent, incumbent governor Olsen, in 1942. Later he was one of the Nixon advisors who was vehemently opposed to Nixon debating Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election.
Max A. Boot is a Russian-American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian. He worked as a writer and editor for Christian Science Monitor and then for The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s. He is now Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributor to The Washington Post. He has written for numerous publications such as The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, and he has also authored books of military history. In 2018, Boot published The Road Not Taken, a biography of Edward Lansdale, and The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right, which details Boot's "ideological journey from a 'movement' conservative to a man without a party" in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election.