Trump Perfected It, But GOP Has Long Courted The Crazy Vote
The New Abnormal
The Daily Beast
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🗓️ 11 September 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump often gets credit for his Rumpelstiltskin-like ability to spin the most demented parts of the American psyche into political gold. But in his new book, American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How The Republican Party Went Crazy, David Corn traces the lineage of the GOP’s love of lunatics all the way back to the 1950s and says Trump is just the latest in a long line of morally bankrupt politicians willing to use the chaotic crazy generated by the darkest parts of society to fuel their ambitions. “Far Right extremism, including paranoia, racism, tribalism, conspiracy theories, … what we’ve seen under Donald Trump is nothing new. It might be the culmination, it’s not an aberration,” Corn said. Corn, a veteran journalist, author and Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones, joined the political podcast The New Abnormal to explain just how American brains became so broken.
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| 1:27.4 | you so much for being here. Today we have an extra special guest with David Korn, who's |
| 1:31.5 | of course the DC bureau chief of Mother Jones and an MSNBC analyst. But today we're |
| 1:36.1 | going to talk to him about his new book, American Psychosis, a historical investigation |
| 1:40.3 | up how the Republican Party went crazy. And he's going to tell us about exactly that. But |
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