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Sykes, Charles J., 1954- author.

How the right lost its mind / Charles J. Sykes.

First edition.

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.

©2017

xix, 267 pages ; 25 cm

"Once at the center of the American conservative movement, ... Sykes [ponders] how the American conservative movement came to lose its values. How did a movement that was defined by its belief in limited government, individual liberty, free markets, traditional values, and civility find itself embracing bigotry, political intransigence, demagoguery, and outright falsehood?"--Amazon.com.

Conservatism -- United States.

Right and left (Political science) -- United States.

Political culture -- United States.

United States -- Politics and government.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. How the Right lost its mind -- Did we create this monster? -- Confessions of a recovering liberal -- The attack on the conservative mind -- The conservative idea -- Storm warnings -- The perpetual outrage machine -- II. The post-truth politics of the Right -- The alt reality media -- The post-truth politics of the Right -- Drudge and the politics of paranoia -- III. The Trumpian takeover. -- The Fox News primary -- Limbaugh's flop -- The bigots among us -- The rise of the Alt Right -- The binary choice -- What happened to the Christians? -- IV. Restoring the conservative mind. -- Trolls and flying monkeys : the Right's new culture of intimidation -- The contrarian conservative.

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