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Chaos comes calling : the battle against the far-right takeover of small-town America / Sasha Abramsky.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Bold Type Books, 2024Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 279 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781645030430 (hardcover)
  • 1645030431 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.53/30979424
LOC classification:
  • HN 79 A161c 2024
Contents:
Introduction: Flooding the zone with shit Part one. Sequim, Washington : The good doctor ; PTSD Part two. Shasta County, California : Item "R2" ; A pressure cooker primed to explode ; The red white and blueprint Part three. Fake facts and culture wars : The men with long guns ; Red pills and shock jocks ; "Ima Plant" and the rise of the election deniers Chaos The culture wars come to town Book bans, flat-earthers, and death threats against the weatherman ; "We want to kill you" ; Epilogue
Summary: "Donald Trump's November 2015 electoral victory was, to many, ominously validated by four years of demagogy, presidential name-calling, and-ten months into a pandemic-an incitement to violence that led a mob of thousands to descend on the Capitol in Washington, DC. Fueled by suspicion, conspiracy, and bigotry, a faction of Americans had decided to seize control. But the biggest effect of this right-wing wave may have been not on our national politics, but on the local governments of communities around the country. In Chaos Comes Calling, Sasha Abramsky investigates the empowerment of the far-right over the past few years, stoked by the Trump presidency and the Covid-19 pandemic. He tells the parallel stories of two communities, Shasta County, California and Sequim, Washington, where toxic alliances of QAnoners, anti-vaxxers, Christian nationalists, militia supporters and other denizens of the far-right have worked to take control of the levers of power. The trajectories of both communities expose the stark divisions and extremism that have come to define our political landscape over the past decade, and offer revealing glimpses of what the future may hold. While Sequim ultimately recalibrated in 2021, returning to rationality, Shasta County has descended further into a climate of intolerance and toxic divisiveness. Chaos Comes Calling vividly captures both the regressive forces gaining momentum all over the country and the tireless efforts of one citizens determined to organize against them"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.

Introduction: Flooding the zone with shit
Part one. Sequim, Washington : The good doctor ; PTSD
Part two. Shasta County, California : Item "R2" ; A pressure cooker primed to explode ; The red white and blueprint
Part three. Fake facts and culture wars : The men with long guns ; Red pills and shock jocks ; "Ima Plant" and the rise of the election deniers
Chaos
The culture wars come to town
Book bans, flat-earthers, and death threats against the weatherman ; "We want to kill you" ; Epilogue

"Donald Trump's November 2015 electoral victory was, to many, ominously validated by four years of demagogy, presidential name-calling, and-ten months into a pandemic-an incitement to violence that led a mob of thousands to descend on the Capitol in Washington, DC. Fueled by suspicion, conspiracy, and bigotry, a faction of Americans had decided to seize control. But the biggest effect of this right-wing wave may have been not on our national politics, but on the local governments of communities around the country. In Chaos Comes Calling, Sasha Abramsky investigates the empowerment of the far-right over the past few years, stoked by the Trump presidency and the Covid-19 pandemic. He tells the parallel stories of two communities, Shasta County, California and Sequim, Washington, where toxic alliances of QAnoners, anti-vaxxers, Christian nationalists, militia supporters and other denizens of the far-right have worked to take control of the levers of power. The trajectories of both communities expose the stark divisions and extremism that have come to define our political landscape over the past decade, and offer revealing glimpses of what the future may hold. While Sequim ultimately recalibrated in 2021, returning to rationality, Shasta County has descended further into a climate of intolerance and toxic divisiveness. Chaos Comes Calling vividly captures both the regressive forces gaining momentum all over the country and the tireless efforts of one citizens determined to organize against them"-- Provided by publisher.

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