Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters

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

â€œAmanda Marcotte drains the swamp and reveals a Republican Party hijacked by grifters and frauds.â€ ?David Daley

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 did Trump, a man with no detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate, appeal to millions of Americans and win the highest office in the land? The American right has spent decades turning away from reasoned discourse toward a rhetoric of pure resentmentâ€”itâ€™s this shift that laid the groundwork for Trumpâ€™s ascendency.

In Troll Nation, journalist Amanda Marcotte outlines how Trump was the inevitable result of American conservatismâ€™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 â€œtheirâ€ 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.

Country	USA
Author	Amanda Marcotte
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781510737464
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Hot Books
Manufacturer	Hot Books
NumberOfPages	216
PublicationDate	2018-04-24
Publisher	Hot Books
ReleaseDate	2018-04-24
Studio	Hot Books

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

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