Award-winning author, journalist, and culture critic, William McGowan, discusses how hyper-moralist Woke politics and the Anti-Trump Resistance, instead of defending democracy as the progressive elite promised, have profoundly damaged it. Institutions that enlisted in the fight against Trump, spanning journalism and publishing, entertainment, academia, philanthropy, and more, have assumed monstrously anti-democratic and authoritarian qualities, pushing America to an existential abyss. Previewing his forthcoming book, “Battle Not With Monsters: How Progressive Moral Vanity Deranged Democracy In Order To Save It From Trump,” Bill McGowan promises a robust Q&A at the next meeting of the Gertrude and Morrison Parker West Side Republican Club.