The book was criticized by Current Affairs magazine for spreading misinformation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, although it drew praise from The American Conservative.

Kennedy accuses the party of accepting the government's public health measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, which he paints as propaganda and unscientific.

[2] The book calls on liberal Americans to protect civil liberties and the First Amendment, and to reject what Kennedy describes as cancel culture.

[3] Current Affairs described the book's claims as "deceptive, bogus, and easily refuted."

It rejected Kennedy's assertions that vaccines cause autism and that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin are effective treatments for COVID-19.