
Troll Nation
How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself
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Teri Schnaubelt
A Senior Political Reporter examines how Trump, a man with no detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate, could appeal to millions of Americans and win the highest office in the land.
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 could a man with no detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate appeal to millions of Americans, enough so that he was able to win the highest office in the land?
With this book, journalist Amanda Marcotte will outline how Trump was the inevitable result of American conservatism’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 “their” 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.
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She has some pointed critiques of our media culture as well.
The one important shortcoming, in my mind at least, is the Democratic Party is kind of left out of the analysis. Marcotte's argument should be read along with books like Lily Geismer's *Don't Blame Us* and Thomah Frank's *Listen Liberal* .
Giving a name to the state of Republican politics
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This book clearly lays out exactly the manners in which the republican party has turned into nothing but a bunch of trolls. Instead of a cogent argument or a defense of conservative values, all we get from these crybabies are “fake news“ to dismiss empirical facts.
The fact that the right wing are funded by mega billionaires who prop up their propaganda networks that spew endless demonization of the left is clearly demonstrated and laid out in this book. A deeper question we should ask might be “why are the billionaires doing this?“ The answer should be obvious, so long as they can keep the “peasants“ fighting amongst them selves, we will not notice or be able to stop them from robbing us.
That being said, the infuriating and childish manner in which the Republican Party behaves itself combined with its anti-democratic tendencies, suppressing votes, gerrymandering and abusing their minority party technical rule over the rest of us is more understandable once you listen to this book.
If you were on the left and tired of being kicked around by conservatives, this book should help you to gain your footing and be able to push back. All sides are not equal in this struggle, one side The Republicans,embrace and glorify fascism, bullying, cruelty and dishonesty. The other side tries to hold to the truth and the ideals that are necessary for free and functioning democracy.
A former conservative loves this book
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the truth about the lies
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Marcotte: a breath of fresh air, as always
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For the last year or so I have been trying to understand the other side because I am just sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I thought reading up on cults would help me more than anything, till I came across this book.
I don't want to give away the content but I resonated with every line of the book, Marcotte explains several experiences I've had that I have been wondering about for years.
I am listening to it for the second time now. I just paused it long enough to write this review; actually re-write my review because I don't think I did the book justice with my first review.
If you are looking for a way to maintain until Biden/Harris are sworn in, this book is for you. Just don't forget to vote!
The Right Book at the Right Time
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Unfortunately their nihilistic self destructive behaviors, complete with silly denials of objective reality, lunatic conspiracy theories, and outright obstruction to all things liberal has only proved the case against them. Although it felt good to consume, I doubt Troll Nation will do much to shame the shameless back to fact based reality, still I wish I could hold down certain Trump blind family members and force them to listen to the uninterrupted truth as told with entertaining humor by Amanda Marcotte.
Reverse Trolling Felt Very Gratifying
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Great explanation of the invasion of trump trolls and how the blue wave performed poorly in the 2016 election and what we need to do to win in the 2018 and beyond elections. Go Blue!😀
Troll Nation
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Title to finish, just hate
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Really Enjoyed it!
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Disappointing
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