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Finally got into this book after having started it almost a year ago. Really interesting, pretty unsettling and a little hopeful at the end. Sharlet brings you with him on his journey into the heart of Trump-loving, gun loving, evangelical America. I live in rural Montana, so none of this was particularly shocking, but I feel like all my Vermont friends (where I lived for a decade) would benefit from reading this. Also my buddies in cities. It’s a wild world out here. 4.5⭐️
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This is a dark and disturbing journey--literally a car trip--into the rightmost, conspiracy-laden realms of the American heartland. Jeff Sharlet, who has written before about Christian fundamentalism, attends Trump rallies, seeks out gun worshipers, goes to church services by conspiracy preachers, and attends a meeting of a men's-rights group. He finds common threads of fascism, Trump worship, misogyny, racism, veneration of the insurrectionists of January 6, and a conviction that civil war is coming, if not already under way. Sharlet makes his own anxieties and vulnerabilities part of the story of his travels, and writes eloquently and even poetically about the darkness he finds. This was not at all a reassuring book, but I think I'm glad to have read it.
Nothing wrong with this book - it’s actually really good and well written. The subject matter just ended up being too much for me emotionally right now. I to come back to it later.
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