PDF American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

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American
Psychosis A Historical Investigation
of
How
the
Republican
Party
Went
Crazy
Description
New York Times bestselling author and
investigative
reporter David
Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the
Republican Partys decadeslong relationship with
farright extremism bigotry and
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paranoia A fastpaced rollicking behindthescenes
account of how the GOP since the s has encouraged
and exploited extremism bigotry and paranoia to
gain power American Psychosis offers readers a
brisk canyoubelieveit journey through the
netherworld of farright irrationality and the
Republican Partys interactions with the darkest
forces in America In a compelling and
thoroughlyresearched narrative Corn reveals the
hidden history of how the Party of Lincoln forged
alliances with extremists kooks racists and
conspiracymongers and fostered fear anger and
resentment to win electionsand how this led to
Donald Trumps triumph and the transformation of
the GOP into a Trump personality cult
that foments and bolsters the crazy and dangerous
excesses of the right nbsp The Trumpincited
insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol on
January was no aberration American Psychosis
shows it was a continuation of the long and
deeprooted Republican practice of boosting and
weaponizing the rage and derangement of the right
nbsp The gripping tale in American Psychosis
covers the last seven decades From McCarthyism to
the John Birch Society to segregationists to the
New Right to the religious right to Rush Limbaugh
to Newt Gingrich to the militia movement to Fox
News to Sarah Palin to the Tea Party to Trumpism
the Republican Party has deliberately nurtured
and exploited rightwing fear and loathing fueled
by paranoia grievance and tribalism This powerful
and important account explains how one political
party has harnessed the worst elements in
politics tonbsppoison the nations discourse and
threaten American democracy Corn is a great
journalist I love the way he thinks I love the
way he writes Im so glad hes done a superreadable
modern history of the rightWe just need smart
digestible history about this stuff right
nowAmerican Psychosis is perfectly timedRelevant
history for where we are right nownbspRachel
Maddow host The Rachel Maddow Show With American
Psychosis David Corn did the full homework to
take us all the way back to where it really
begins Lawrence ODonnell host The Last Word