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NOW THAT TRUMP IS GONE, LEARN HOW HE MADE SCUM AMERICA THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE ON THE PLANET! Following in the footsteps of Aaron James's Assholes: A Theory, Scott McMurrey has applied the theory to Trump and his minions. The result is thorough lambasting of the people who put Trump in place and the even more reprehensible people who have come out of the shadows since Trump's election. McMurrey takes on the whole cadre of cretinous creatures who flocked to Trump, from the right-wing nutjobs left over from the Tea Party years to the slime who admired him from playing a mogul on TV to the ...

The Republican Party and its Scum American base have risen to a despicable highpoint. Donald Trump—the living expression of everything base, vile, ignorant, and mean-spirited in the American undergrowth—has destroyed nearly everything he’s touched. Our politics are more divided than at any time since the civil war. Arrogant ignorance has infected every cell of our society. Anti-social, neo-confederate racism and fanatical libertarianism are running rampant when we most need solidarity and shared sacrifice. This is all the fault of Scum America and its political haven, the Republican ...

“Conservatism” is a con. For seventy years, “conservatives” have been running a con job on America and on themselves. Because they were getting their heads bashed in by liberals, they created a bunch of phony “principles” in the early 1950s. They’ve been pushing them ever since. And they’ve managed to convince millions of people—even liberals—that “conservatism” is a legitimate world view. It is not. It is a farrago of deception, illogic, unreason, and selfishness painted over to seem unthreatening and wholesome. The principal author of this con was Russell Kirk, ...