Author: David Corn
David Corn’s American Psychosis is a fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the Republican Party since the 1950s has encouraged and exploited extremism, bigotry, and paranoia to gain power, offering readers a brisk journey through the netherworld of far-right irrationality and the party’s interactions with the darkest forces in America.
Corn reveals the hidden history of how the party forged alliances with extremists, kooks, racists, and conspiracy-mongers and fostered fear, anger, and resentment to win elections — and how this led to Donald Trump’s triumph and the transformation of the party into a Trump personality cult.
