Weapons of Mass Delusion When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind by Draper, Robert - 2022

New York: Penguin Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 384 pages; About new in similar dustjacket. Unread. The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new breed of Republicans -- led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn -- far from moving on from Trump, have taken the politics of hysteria to even greater extremes and brought American democracy to the edgeThe violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was a terrible day for American democracy, but many people dared to hope that at least it would break the fever that had overcome the Republican Party and banish Trump's relentless lies about the stealing of the 2020 election. That is not what happened. Instead, "the big steal" has become dogma among an ever-higher percentage of American Republicans. What happened to the Republican Party, and America, during the Trump presidency is a story we more or less think we know. What has happened to the party since, it turns out, is even more disquieting. That is the story Robert Draper tells in Weapons of Mass Delusion. .