David Corn's New Book

Click here for a short article at Mother Jones by David Corn promoting his new book American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy. His thesis is that "since the 1950s, the Republican Party has brazenly encouraged and exploited right-wing extremism."

An illustrative paragraph: "It chronicles how the Republicans have fueled and fed on the worst elements of American public life since the McCarthy era. This includes Eisenhower surrendering to McCarthy in 1952; Goldwater’s alliance with the Birchers; Nixon’s racist Southern strategy; the rise of the New Right and the religious right (and their politics of hatred); Reagan’s partnership with the Moral Majority, whose leaders called for executing gay people, and his political ties to former Nazi collaborators (yes, really); the Limbaughization, Foxification, and Gingrichization of the GOP; the Bushes’ reliance on far-right and extreme (and bonkers) Christian right operatives; Palinism (as in Sarah); the Tea Party; and—ta dum!—Trump."