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The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
by Jeff Sharlet
challenging
dark
informative
tense
medium-paced
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.