Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America

BOOK REVIEW

Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America

by John Avlon


"Wingnuts offers a clear and comprehensive review of the forces on the outer edges
of the political spectrum that shape and distort our political debate.
Shedding more heat than light they drive frustrated alienated citizens away from the
reasoned discourse that can produce real solutions to our problems."
- President Bill Clinton





Product Description:

What’s a Wingnut? It’s someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum -
the professional partisans and the unhinged activists, the hardcore haters and the paranoid conspiracy theorists.

They’re the people who always try to divide us instead of unite us.

Wingnuts looks at the outbreak of extremism in the opening years of the Obama administration –
from the unprecedented government spending that spurred the Tea-Party protests to the onset
of Obama Derangement Syndrome.

John Avlon explains how hate-fueled rumors take hold (one section is called “How Obama Became Hitler,
a Communist and the Antichrist”), looks at the ‘hunt for heretics’ that is taking place inside both parties
and details the rise of hyper-partisan media. Avlon profiles preachers who are praying for the president’s death,
goes inside the growing “Hatriot” movement and parallels the “Birthers” and the “9/11 Truthers.”

The book compares current merchants of political paranoia with past fear-mongers and finds that
divisive demagogues have sold this snake oil before. But the two parties’ increased polarization
and the echo-chamber of the internet are helping the fringe blur with the base, making the
Wingnuts more powerful than ever before.

"We are allowing paranoids, hysterics and hyper-partisans to hijack our politics –
but it doesn’t have to be this way. Avlon asserts that centrists need to stand up
to the extremes on both sides and declare their independence. "

The book ends on a hopeful note – the conclusion is “How to Take America Back from the Lunatic Fringe.”



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>"Wingnuts offers a clear and comprehensive review of the forces on the outer edges
of the political spectrum that shape and distort our political debate.
Shedding more heat than light they drive frustrated alienated citizens away from the
reasoned discourse that can produce real solutions to our problems."
- President Bill Clinton <



Figured out what the meaning of IS is yet Bill ???

i realy despise all of these wingnut trolls out there