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What’s a Wingnut? It’s someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the politics spectrum - the professional partisans and the unhinged activists, the hardcore haters and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They’re the people who always try to divide us rather than unite us.
Wingnuts looks at the outbreak of extremism in the beginning many years of the Obama administration – from the unprecedented federal spending that spurred the Tea-Party protests to the starting point of Obama Derangement Syndrome. John Avlon clarifies how hate-fueled gossips take hold (one section is named “How Obama Became Hitler, a Communist and the Antichrist”), looks at the ‘hunt for heretics’ that is taking place inside both get-togethers and details the rise of hyper-partisan media. Avlon profiles preachers who are praying for the chief executive’s fatality, moves inside the growing “Hatriot” movements and parallels the “Birthers” and the “9/11 Truthers.” The reserve compares current stores of politics paranoia with previous fear-mongers and finds that divisive demagogues have sold this snake essential oil before. However the two get-togethers’ increased polarization and the echo-chamber of the internet are supporting the fringe blur with the base, making the Wingnuts stronger than in the past.
We are allowing paranoids, hysterics and hyper-partisans to hijack our politics – but it doesn’t need to be this way. Avlon asserts that centrists need to endure the extremes on both edges and declare their self-reliance. The reserve ends on the hopeful take note – the final outcome is “How to Take America Back again from the Lunatic Fringe.”
Wingnuts looks at the outbreak of extremism in the beginning many years of the Obama administration – from the unprecedented federal spending that spurred the Tea-Party protests to the starting point of Obama Derangement Syndrome. John Avlon clarifies how hate-fueled gossips take hold (one section is named “How Obama Became Hitler, a Communist and the Antichrist”), looks at the ‘hunt for heretics’ that is taking place inside both get-togethers and details the rise of hyper-partisan media. Avlon profiles preachers who are praying for the chief executive’s fatality, moves inside the growing “Hatriot” movements and parallels the “Birthers” and the “9/11 Truthers.” The reserve compares current stores of politics paranoia with previous fear-mongers and finds that divisive demagogues have sold this snake essential oil before. However the two get-togethers’ increased polarization and the echo-chamber of the internet are supporting the fringe blur with the base, making the Wingnuts stronger than in the past.
We are allowing paranoids, hysterics and hyper-partisans to hijack our politics – but it doesn’t need to be this way. Avlon asserts that centrists need to endure the extremes on both edges and declare their self-reliance. The reserve ends on the hopeful take note – the final outcome is “How to Take America Back again from the Lunatic Fringe.”
