num_pages: 18
description: #1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Partys decades-long relationship with far-right extremism bigotry and paranoia. A fast-paced rollicking behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP since the 1950s has encouraged and exploited extremism bigotry and paranoia to gain power AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS offers readers a brisk can-you-believe-it journey through the netherworld of far-right irrationality and the Republican Partys interactions with the darkest forces in America. In a compelling and thoroughly-researched narrative Corn reveals the hidden history of how the Party of Lincoln forged alliances with extremists kooks racists and conspiracy-mongers and fostered fear anger and resentment to win electionsand how this led to Donald Trumps triumph and the transformation of the GOP into a Trump personality cult that foments and bolsters the crazy and dangerous excesses of the right. The Trump-incited insurrectionist attack on the US Capitol on January 6 2021 was no aberration. AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS shows it was a continuation of the long and deep-rooted Republican practice of boosting and weaponizing the rage and derangement of the right. The gripping tale in AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS covers the last seven decades. From McCarthyism to the John Birch Society to segregationists to the New Right to the religious right to Rush Limbaugh to Newt Gingrich to the militia movement to Fox News to Sarah Palin to the Tea Party to Trumpism the Republican Party has deliberately nurtured and exploited rightwing fear and loathing fueled by paranoia grievance and tribalism. This powerful and important account explains how one political party has harnessed the worst elements in politics to poison the nations discourse and threaten American democracy.
language: English
title: American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
publisher: Twelve