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Liar's circus : a strange and terrifying journey into the upside-down world of Trump's MAGA rallies / Carl Hoffman.

Hoffman, Carl, 1960- (author.).

Summary:

Hoffman, who has written about the most dangerous and remote corners of the world, pierced this alternate society, welcomed in and initiated into its rights and upside-down beliefs, and finally ushered to its inner sanctum. Equally freewheeling and profound, Liar's Circus tracks the MAGA faithful across five thousand miles of the American heartland during a crucial arc of the Trump presidency stretching from the impeachment saga to the dawn of the coronavirus pandemic that ended the rallies as we know it. Trump's rallies are a singular and defining force in American history--a kind of Rosetta stone to understanding the Age of Trump. Yet while much remarked upon, they are, in fact, little examined, with the focus almost always on Trump's latest outrageous statement. But who are the tens of thousands of people who fill these arenas? What do they see in Trump? And what curious alchemy--between president and adoring crowd--happens there that might explain Trump's rise and powerful hold over both his base and the GOP? To those on the left, the rallies are a Black Mass of American politics at which Trump plays high priest, recklessly summoning the darkest forces within the nation.

Record details

ISBN: 9780063009769
ISBN: 0063009765
ISBN: 9780063009776
ISBN: 0063009773
ISBN: 9780063028883
ISBN: 0063028883
Physical Description: xii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Custom House, [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249).

Formatted Contents Note:

Author's note -- Part one: Hell. The crowd loves density -- Are you a good person? -- You must love Jesus more than your own life -- He's heaven-sent -- Dream on -- The people and the anti-people -- They even downsized Walmart -- It's all psyops -- Ordinary people -- She'd kill to win -- The leader wants to survive -- Part two: Purgatory. Her penis is swinging -- I'd pick up his poop -- I would fight you for him -- That black woman was not here -- We are kicking their ass -- Thousands cried out...some fainted -- A self-induced imaginary frenzy -- They got full of ideas -- We have a solution -- Coercion. Domination. Control. -- Part three: Paradise. I won't bend over and lick their ass -- The Q clock will blow your mind -- Someday we'll go for a horseback ride.