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    Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself
    Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself
    Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself
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    Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself

    Written by Amanda Marcotte and David Talbot

    Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt

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    A Senior Political Reporter examines how Trump, a man with no detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate, could appeal to millions of Americans and win the highest office in the land.

    The election of Donald Trump in 2016, like most of his campaign, came as a shock to many Americans. How could a man so lacking in capacity, so void of any intellectual heft, become the president of the United States? How could a man with no detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate appeal to millions of Americans, enough so that he was able to win the highest office in the land?

    With this book, journalist Amanda Marcotte will outline how Trump was the inevitable result of American conservatism’s degradation into an ideology of blind resentment. For years now, the purpose of right wing media, particularly Fox News, has not been to argue for traditional conservative ideals, such as small government or even family values, so much as to stoke bitterness and paranoia in its audience. Traditionalist white people have lost control over the culture, and they know it, and the only option they feel they have left is to rage at a broad swath of supposed enemies—journalists, activists, feminists, city dwellers, college professors—that they blame for stealing “their” country from them.

    Conservative pundits, politicians, and activists have abandoned any hope of winning the argument through reasoned discourse, and instead have adopted a series of bad faith claims, conspiracy theories, and culture war hysterics. Decades of these antics created a conservative voting base that was ready to elect a mindless bully like Donald Trump.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 24, 2018
    ISBN9781978606012
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    Amanda Marcotte

    Amanda Marcotte is a Senior Political Writer for Salon. Before this, she spent a decade as a freelance journalist, writing regularly for Slate, the Rolling Stone, the Daily Beast, USA Today, Talking Points Memo, and the Los Angeles Times. Marcotte’s expertise is in covering the American right, a beat she was drawn to after growing up in a conservative Texas household with Fox News and Rush Limbaugh-loving parents. She got her start covering reproductive rights, which further familiarized her with the organizing and rhetorical strategies of the Christian right. Since then, she’s expanded her reporting on right wing politics, covering everything from climate change denialism to the activities of the gun lobby.

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    • 1/5
      She’s a joke. What a blatant exaggerating nonsensical lumping together of millions of people

      3 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Another entry in the new genre of "people were mean to me online and I have a platform to complain about it."

      I cant imagine how these type of things get any play outside a media class that considers anything but reverence for thier cushy jobs and banal ideas as the ascendance of fascism.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      A compilation of delusion, and logical fallacies written by an author with subpar English comprehension.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Very well written & to the point. Explains so much & shows there’s a lot of homegrown anger, not all about Russian interference. We’re our own worst enemies. And Fox News plays such a big role.

      11 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Sick writings from the hate cult. The lack of self awareness is appalling.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Possibly the most absolutely one sided, unproven, uninformed, conjecture ridden attempt to smear "the other party" I have ever heard, read, or seen! Honestly, the quality of work that publishers will now associate themselves with is horrifying. It used to be the any book published and intended to be marketed to the public at large by an actual publisher HAD to be proven and contain more than vulgar terminology, and mud slinging intentional misinterpreted "facts".
      Don't waste your time with this unless you are trying to figure how Liberals convince themselves that the wrongs they do are in no way the same level of wrong as Republicans or Independents, and how they have decided the government should infiltrate every area of your life. Even then, nothing here will help with actually fixing the problem.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      THIS IS A DISGUSTING BOOK FULL OF LIES AND GARBAGE FIT ONLY FOR AN INCINERATOR. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME. HORRIBLE.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      this book absolutely sucked. It lacked any facts amid the profanity, I wanted to throw up!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      If Intellectual myopia reinforced by myths and legends created by writers seemingly incapable of scholarship is one's idea of enlightenment, I heartily recommend this book. If not, one's time is better spent memorizing identified genders and lamenting the compound intersectionality of one's oppressed condition.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I knew Trump was bad. This book reveals how deep the rabbit hole goes. Literal decades of creeping fascism were finally made manifest when Trump ran for office. One of the best books to learn how the hell we ended up with an orange buffoon in the Oval Office.

      10 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      While I am not a trump supporter at all, the tone of this book is from an extreme Liberal view. Being a Moderate it is not a viewpoint I entirely share. I also would not Entirely share the extreme conservative us against them view. I do recommend this book, but if you want a non-partisan approach this isn’t it. It is factual as are the books by Bob Woodward. The difference is that bob Woodward doesn’t take an extreme view.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Doesn't try at all to understand the underpinning causes of division in American. Just chalks them up to irrational malevolence by conservatives towards liberals -- misogyny, racism, and such. If you really want to understand, start with jobs and the economy, not Gamergate.






      3 people found this helpful