Polemical tracts like The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston - reputed to be the authoritative text that "Connects the dots from Donald Trump's racist background to the Russian scandals" - sold boatloads, as evidenced by the swift commissioning of a sequel from Johnston titled It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America.
In July 2020, the top book on the NYT list was The Room Where it Happened, a tome by fired National Security Advisor and uber-hawk John Bolton, who became a hellacious Trump antagonist on the basis of grievances like Trump's insufficient willingness to bomb Iran.
In 2021, nobody's gobbling up books about Joe Biden, because just there's nothing titillating about the political existence of Biden.
Biden detractors may not favor the guy politically, but they're also not desperate for vicious personal polemics against him in the same way they might've been for, say, Hillary Clinton - or in the way Resistance readers craved a constant serving of hairbrained screeds against Trump.
The concept of "Biden supporters" was never manufactured into the same kind of collectivizing identity trait that "Trump supporters" came to be; people who might've voted for Biden or basically support what he's doing in office don't have much reason to signal their fidelity to him through book purchases.
These omissions are all the more noticeable because there's plenty of other "Buzzworthy" material in the book, well beyond the laptop stuff - or at least material "Buzzy" enough that if anything like it was unearthed in a book involving Trump, the lucky author would've been able to afford several new vacation homes.
Missy Biden Owens took a job as "Director for public affairs and diplomatic relations" for the carbonated sugar drink conglomerate, which coincided with Jill Biden posting a blog on the White House website extolling Coca-Cola's feel-good international development initiatives.
https://mtracey.substack.com/p/how-the-biden-family-gets-away-with
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