Republican Gommorrah
Now this looks good:
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“This is an explosive book that gets to the heart of the winger psychoses. Max Blumenthal sees the inner truth that “many of the [right wing] movement’s leading figures are united by more than political campaigns; they are bound together by a shared sensibility rooted in private trauma. Their lives have been stained by crisis and scandal – depression, mental illness, extra-marital affairs, struggles with homosexual urges, attraction to drugs and pornography, serial domestic abuse, and even murder.”
And that’s for starters.
“Inspired by the work of psychologist Erich Fromm, who analyzed how the fear of freedom propels anxiety-ridden people into authoritarian settings, Blumenthal explains in a compelling narrative how a culture of personal crisis has defined the radical right.”</em>
Sounds like a summer beach read to me!
