Trump Perfected It, But GOP Has Long Courted The Crazy Vote
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\u2019s 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. \u201cFar Right extremism, including paranoia, racism, tribalism, conspiracy theories, \u2026 what we\u2019ve seen under Donald Trump is nothing new. It might be the culmination, it\u2019s not an aberration,\u201d 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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