Download Audiobook American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn in English

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#1 New York Instances bestselling writer and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Celebration’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia.A quick-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP because the Nineteen Fifties has inspired and exploited extremism, bigotry, and paranoia to achieve energy, AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS presents listeners a brisk, can-you-believe-it journey via the netherworld of far-right irrationality and the Republican Celebration’s interactions with the darkest forces in America. In a compelling and thoroughly-researched narrative, Corn reveals the hidden historical past of how the Celebration of Lincoln solid alliances with extremists, kooks, racists, and conspiracy-mongers and fostered concern, anger, and resentment to win elections—and the way this led to Donald Trump’s triumph and the transformation of the GOP right into a Trump character cult that foments and bolsters the loopy and harmful excesses of the appropriate.The Trump-incited insurrectionist assault on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was no aberration. AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS exhibits it was a continuation of the lengthy and deep-rooted Republican observe of boosting and weaponizing the craze and derangement of the appropriate.The gripping story in AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS covers the final seven a long time. From McCarthyism to the John Birch Society to segregationists to the New Proper to the non secular proper to Rush Limbaugh to Newt Gingrich to the militia motion to Fox Information to Sarah Palin to the Tea Celebration to Trumpism, the Republican Celebration has intentionally nurtured and exploited rightwing concern and loathing fueled by paranoia, grievance, and tribalism. This highly effective and essential account explains how one political celebration has harnessed the worst components in politics to poison the nation’s discourse and threaten American democracy.