Summary of American Psychosis by David Corn: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

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David Corn's new book, AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS, explores the Republican Party's decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia. Author reveals the hidden history of how the Party of Lincoln forged alliances with extremists, kooks, racists, and conspiracy-mongers to win elections.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: Sep 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215784990

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American Psychosis

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A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

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Willie M. Joseph

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Contents

Backstory I The Rise and Decline of the Grand Old Party

Backstory II Fear and Loathing in America

The General and the Scoundrel

No Good Birchers

In Your Heart

Keeping the Kooks Quiet

Bring Us Together

Ratfucking America

Make Them Angry

Onward Christian Soldiers

Let’s Make America Great Again

Reaganland

Morning (and Nazis) in America

Not Kinder or Gentler

Spiritual Warfare

The Clinton Chronicles

A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

Fortunate Son

What We Deserve

Going Rogue

Feed the Beast

The Fever Doesn’t Break

I Am Your Voice

Very Fine People

The Aftermath

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INTRODUCTION

Two Mobs

Nelson Rockefeller was the grandson of robber baron John D. Rockefeller and tried to thwart the hero of the moment: Barry Goldwater. Rockefeller had competed for the presidential nomination against Goldwater, but his campaign had been subsumed by the right wing's takeover of the party. The John Birch Society was deplored by delegates at the Republican National Committee's annual meeting in D.C.'s Cow Palace, a project of FDR's Works Progress Administration originally built as a livestock pavilion. Goldwater's path to the GOP nomination had been fueled by the paranoid passions of the Birchers and other far-right conservatives. As soon as Rockefeller proposed adding the anti-Bircher amendment to the platform, the crowd shouted, No! No!.

A rumbling of boos resounded through the hall. In Goldwater's command center, top campaign aides dispatched a message to their delegates: Knock it off. Frida Ghitis: In 2021, President Donald Trump held a conspiracy-themed rally on the Ellipse in Washington. After the 2016 election, Donald Trump fed the paranoid right with bogus claims of a stolen election. His supporters included white supremacists, Christian nationalists, neo-Nazis, and adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

The Proud Boys were roaming the streets of Washington, eager to do battle for Trump. Frida Ghitis: At a rally in Washington, Donald Trump called on Vice President-elect Joe Biden to block the certification of the Electoral College vote count. Many in the audience had been primed the previous day during premarch rallies in different Washington locations. At one of these well-attended kick-off events on Capitol Hill, paranoia and conspiracy theory ran rampant. The flood of paranoia continued to pour forth at this January 5 event.

All hell is going to break loose tomorrow, Steve Bannon wrote on his website. If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore, Donald Trump told his supporters. Rioters who had skipped or left the rally grappled with Capitol Hill police officers. Frida Ghitis: Extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., demanding an end to the electoral count certification process.

Frida Ghitis: What happened on Capitol Hill was a continuation of the Republican Party's decades-long relationship with extremism. For years, the Party of Lincoln cashed in on paranoia, bigotry, and conspiracy theory, Ghitis says. She says Donald Trump weaponized the delusions held by his supporters that he had originated and advanced. Frida Ghitis: January 6 was a break from the past and from the nation's political reality. She says GOP had long played with and stoked the fires of extremism for political advantage. But no one person could have engineered such a profound rupture on his or