Books A Fox News Host Wrote a Hit Romance About the Allure of Republican Men. It Did Not Make Me Swoon. I read Dana Perino’s Purple State so you don’t have to. By Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. Sign in or create an account to better manage your email preferences. Unsubscribe from email alerts Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from email alerts for Rebecca Onion ? May 14, 2026 11:52 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images, Getty Images Plus, and Amazon. Recent polling shows that the younger you are, the more you want your romantic partner to be politically aligned with you. This bothers a lot of people, including Dana Perino, a Fox News host and former George W. Bush press secretary, who currently has a book in its second week on the New York Times bestseller list . Perino’s Purple State sports one of those Emily Henry–style cartoon covers , and it’s a self-professed “romcom”—a fantasy about liberal women falling for conservative men.…