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How the right lost its mind
"Once at the center of the American conservative movement, ... Sykes [ponders] how the American conservative movement came to lose its values. How did a movement that was defined by its belief in limited government, individual liberty, free markets, traditional values, and civility find itself embracing bigotry, political intransigence, demagoguery, and outright falsehood?"--Amazon.com.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250147172
- ISBN: 1250147174
- ISBN: 9781250147219 (ebook)
- Physical Description: xix, 267 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |