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"Bracing and immediate." - The Washington PostOnce at the center of the American conservative movement, bestselling author and radio host Charles J. Sykes is a fierce opponent of Donald Trump and the right-wing media that enabled his rise.
In
How the Right Lost Its Mind, Sykes presents an impassioned, regretful, and deeply thoughtful account of 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?
How the Right Lost Its Mind addresses:
*Why are so many voters so credulous and immune to factual information reported by responsible media?
*Why do conservatives decide to overlook, even embrace, so many of Trump's outrages, gaffes, conspiracy theories, falsehoods, and smears?
*Can conservatives govern? Or are they content merely to rage?
*How can the right recover its traditional values and persuade a new generation of their worth?
List of contents
I. HOW THE RIGHT LOST ITS MIND
1. Did We Create this Monster?
2. Confessions of a Recovering Liberal
3. The Attack on the Conservative Mind
4. The Conservative Idea
5. Storm Warnings
6. The Perpetual Outrage Machine
II. THE POST-TRUTH POLITICS OF THE RIGHT
7. The Alt Reality Media
8. The Post-Truth Politics of the Right
9. Drudge and the Politics of Paranoia
III. THE TRUMPIAN TAKEOVER
10. The Fox News Primary
11. Limbaugh's Flop
12. The Bigots Among Us
13. The Rise of the Alt Right
14. The Binary Choice
15. What Happened to the Christians?
IV. RESTORING THE CONSERVATIVE MIND
16. Trolls and Flying Monkeys: The Right's New Culture of Intimidation
17. The Contrarian Conservative
About the author
Charles J. Sykes is the author of several books on current affairs and education, including
Fail U., A Nation of Victims, and
Profscam. He has written pieces for the
Wall Street Journal and
Time.com among others, and in 2016 was featured for his critiques of Donald Trump and conservative media in articles on the front page of
The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and NPR. A longtime host of the #1 conservative talk-radio show in Wisconsin, he resigned that position and is now a regular contributor to MSNBC.
