By Alexander Zaitchik
A grippingly intimate and heart-breaking portrait of the jogging wounded who make up the bottom of the Trump stream. determined and offended, those are the lads and ladies of the vanishing business heartland and the depressed Appalachian coal state and the drug-running, no-man's land alongside the Southwestern borderlands. they've got no illusions concerning the grandstanding billionaire and his obvious flaws. yet they think forgotten and screwed over via political, company and media elites...and they suppose that Donald Trump, regardless of his flamboyant demagoguery, may well good be their final probability for salvation. half Studs Terkel, half Hunter S. Thompson, Alexander Zaitchik takes us deeper into the ravaged soul of the United States than the other chronicler of our times.
Praise for Alexander Zaitchik's Common experience: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance:
"A sharp and informative smackdown. For Zaitchik, [Glenn] Beck is only one extra American con artist within the P.T. Barnum culture, a shameless pseudoconservative bottom-feeder who will say whatever to maintain the highlight on himself whereas the money rolls in."
--Mark Lilla, The big apple assessment of Books
"A sensational book... this can be a superbly written and insightful biography--thoughtful, thought of, and intensely intentional concerning the have to comprehend Beck either as an emblem of whatever greater happening in the US and as a person."
--Susan Gardner, Daily Kos
"A scathing profile that follows the robust pundit from a single-parent domestic in rural Washington country to conservative superstardom."
--The Boston Globe
"A nice political e-book. Zaitchik tells [Beck's tale] good and no-one has advised it extra soberly."
--Slate
"An informative study."
--Sean Wilentz, The New Yorker
"A gripping and carefully researched biography."
--Joe Conason, Salon
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I started having nightmares everyday. I see the kids…. There were things over there we did that were … unexplainable. When you get told to … seven-year-old kids. Do or die, you gotta do what you’re told, if an NCO tells you to do it, guess what? Don’t do it, and you get in more trouble, or you die. I look at my kids…. They’re the same age as some of the kids over there. “When my brother got back, he got messed up in the head, ended up committing suicide. There was like eight guys in his unit that were threatening to commit suicide, and my brother talked them down.
Several worked both Trump and Bernie rallies. “They buy the most stuff,” said one traveling vendor. ” I joined the line and fell into conversation with a local couple and their teenage daughter. Kathy, the mother, was a friendly woman with bright red hair. When I mentioned I was a reporter, she told me to turn on my recorder. “I’ll tell you exactly what I think,” she said. “I was born in 1956 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. It was easy for my parents. They were both working people, but as a middle-class family we could go out every Friday night if we wanted to for a fish fry.
The stock market has doubled. ” Across from Reynolds, a straight-backed middle-aged man in rimless glasses and a sharp nose sprang to life. “Obama—not so bad? Ha! He destroyed the economy,” he said. “Business confidence, the real estate market—they collapsed after his election. Overnight. His policies—retarded. ” The man introduced himself as Dennis Vlach, an area landlord and award-winning realtor for RE/MAX. He declared his own fierce allegiance to Trump, the Wisconsin GOP be damned. “I’m disappointed in them,” he said.
