American Psychosis

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"We all know that the hatred, bigotry, conspiracism, paranoia, and rage inside the GOP didn’t start with Donald Trump. But in AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS, an important and convincing account, David Corn shows that such poison has been in the marrow of the Republican Party for more than 70 years."—Jonathan Alter, author of The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies “Whether you think the GOP's descent into depravity started with Barry Goldwater or Richard Nixon or Newt Gingrich, David Corn makes the powerful case that Donald Trump didn't come out of nowhere. Corn expertly traces the antecedents of Trump and Trumpism over the decades. This is a must read if you want to understand what brought us to Trump and why the GOP remains a threat to American democracy.”—Jennifer Rubin, columnist, the Washington Post “David Corn's AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS is essential reading for anyone hoping to restore political sanity in America. He argues convincingly that the toxic brew of bigotry, conspiracy theories, and lies that define Trumpism started long before Trump. Corn writes that Trump was not an aberration. He was the apotheosis of the Republican Party's decades-long slide into the gutter. Corn weaves this investigative history together into a compelling narrative that is equal parts horrifying and entertaining. It's a tribute to Corn that with the publication of AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS he has managed to make brilliant sense of American senselessness.”—Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money, and Chief Washington Correspondent for The New Yorker Magazine “In this sweeping examination of the United States, David Corn explains that descent of
the modern-day Republican Party into radicalism is not an aberration, it is the logical 
outcome of party leaders' decades-long weaponization of our nation's history of paranoia, conspiracy theories, and bigotry for political advantage. AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS requires us to revisit the dark forces that have shaped our government and charges us to safeguard American democracy from those who inflame our worst instincts in order to destroy it.”
 —Heather Cox Richardson, professor of history, Boston College "David Corn has written a searing and deeply reported account of how a major political party binged on crazy pills for decades—even before Donald Trump rallied a mob to attack the US Capitol. Tracing the history of the modern GOP, Corn recounts how the party succumbed to the extremism, alternative realities, and paranoia that spread the AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS that exploded on January 6. A desperately important read."—Charlie Sykes, author of How The Right Lost Its Mind "AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS is a brave and important book written by one of the sharpest political writers of our time."—Molly Jong-Fast, contributing writer, The Atlantic Expand reviews