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How the right lost its mind / Charles J. Sykes.
Van Pelt Library JC573.2.U6 S95 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sykes, Charles J., 1954- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conservatism--United States.
- Conservatism.
- Right and left (Political science).
- United States.
- Right and left (Political science)--United States.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 267 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- So how did this happen? How did the right wander off into the fever swamps of the Alt Right? How did it manage to go from Friedrich Hayek to Sean Hannity, from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump? How did it create an alternative-reality silo that indulged every manner of crackpot, wing-nut conspiracy theory? How did a movement that was defined by its belief in individual liberty and respect for the Constitution, free markets, personal responsibility, traditional values, and civility find itself embracing a stew of nativism, populism, and nationalism? How did the thought leaders of the movement find themselves tossed aside as "cuckservatives"? When exactly did conservatives start to lose their minds? Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I. How the Right lost its mind
- Did we create this monster?
- Confessions of a recovering liberal
- The attack on the conservative mind
- The conservative idea
- Storm warnings
- The perpetual outrage machine
- II. The post-truth politics of the Right
- The alt reality media
- The post-truth politics of the Right
- Drudge and the politics of paranoia
- III. The Trumpian takeover.
- The Fox News primary
- Limbaugh's flop
- The bigots among us
- The rise of the Alt Right
- The binary choice
- What happened to the Christians?
- IV. Restoring the conservative mind.
- Trolls and flying monkeys : the Right's new culture of intimidation
- The contrarian conservative.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781250147172
- 1250147174
- OCLC:
- 966396372
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