Title:
Weapons of mass delusion : when the Republican Party lost its mind
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Publication Date:
2022
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Press, 2022.
Physical Description:
xvi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780593300145
Abstract:
The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new generation of Republicans-led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn-far from moving on from Trump, have taken the politics of hysteria to even greater extremes, bringing American democracy to the very edge of reason The violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021 was a terrible day for American democracy, but at least, many people dared hope that, after it was over, the fever would then be broken, Trump's absurd and relentless set of lies about the stealing of the 2020 election made unspeakable. That is not what happened. Instead, shockingly, "the big steal" has increasingly become dogma among an ever-higher percentage of American Republicans. What happened to the Republican Party, and America, during the Trump presidency is a story we more or less think we know. Draper chronicles the road from January 6th to the 2022 midterms among the Republican base and in the US Congress, as Marjorie Taylor Greene and her ilk have come to shape their party's terms of engagement to an extent that would have been unimaginable even ten years ago. He brings to life the efforts of a dwindling group of Republicans who are willing to push back against the falsehoods, in the face of a group of ascendent demagogues who are merrily weaponizing them.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
The dentist-patriot -- Insurrection -- Truth and the West Terrace -- "Harder than anyone" -- The art of the lie -- The enabler -- Clio and the chairwoman -- "I find it very interesting" -- The gallery group -- Arc of the crazy -- Incitement -- "A thousand pounds of rubbish" -- "I'm literally you" -- The fall of the house of Cheney -- Bête noire -- Bad company -- The big lie, in perpetuity -- The leviathan lie -- McConnell -- The blue -- The bowl -- To be unserious -- A Twitter holiday -- The killing lie -- The big lie, spreading -- The Patriot Wing -- At the fairgrounds -- "The most dangerous man in Congress" -- Fake audits -- Death cult -- State of the union -- The unwinding -- The way of the impeachers -- one day in Georgia.
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Language:
English
