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New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and crazy story of the Republican Party’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia.
A fast-paced, rollicking account of how the GOP since the 1950s has constantly encouraged and exploited extremism and paranoia to gain power, American Psychosis offers listeners a brisk, can-you-believe-it journey through the netherworld of far-right irrationality and the Republican Party’s interactions with the darkest forces of America—which culminated in Donald Trump’s triumph.
It tells the hidden history of how the party of Lincoln forged alliances with extremists, kooks, racists, and conspiracy-mongers and fueled fear, anger, and resentment to win elections—and how this led to the GOP becoming a Trump personality cult that bolsters the most bizarre and craziest excesses of the right.
The Trump-incited insurrectionist attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was no aberration. American Psychosis shows it was a continuation of a long and deep-rooted tradition of the GOP: fostering and capitalizing on derangement on the right. This book entertains and enlightens even as it presents a horrific tale of American politics gone wrong.
The story told in this book covers the last seven decades. From McCarthyism to the Birchers to segregationists to the New Right to the religious right to Rush Limbaugh to Newt Gingrich to the militia movement to Fox News to the Tea Party to Donald Trump, the Republican Party has deliberately nurtured and exploited right-wing fear and loathing dangerously fueled by conspiracy theories and political paranoia.
This powerful and important account explains how the worst forces in American politics have come to poison the nation’s discourse.
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“Chronicles how Republicans themselves made the MAGA Monster that now devours their party. Every modern Republican, Trump supporter or not, has been complicit in this nightmare.”
— The Nation
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“A super-readable, modern history of the right…Relevant history for where we are right now."
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“[A] colorful and persuasive treatise…Incisive political history.”
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“A sobering look at the ideological destruction, born of cynicism and opportunism, of a once-principled party.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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A New York Times bestseller
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About David Corn
David Corn is the author or co-author of three New York Times bestsellers. He is a veteran Washington journalist and political commentator. He is the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine and an analyst for MSNBC.
About Steven Jay Cohen
Steven Jay Cohen has been telling stories his whole life, and has worked professionally as a storyteller since 1991. A classically trained actor, he has worked both on stage and behind the microphone for most of his career. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Steven now resides in scenic western Massachusetts.