Asshole Nation

Book excerpt: HOW TRUMP IS BRINGING OUT THE WORST IN AMERICA! Second Edition, Revised and Expanded 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 bottom-dwelling Republicans who just saw him as a thug and a bully who would get them what they wanted. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Trump, King of Assholes 2. Asshole Nation: Trump's Natural Constituency 3. Why Trumpist Assholes are Republicans 4. Why Assholes are Comfortable in the Republican Party 5. Why Asshole Nation Adores Trump 6. Don't Feel Bad for Trumpists 7. Beating Back Trump's Asshole Nation 8. Even "Never-Trump" Republicans are Responsible for the Rise of Asshole Nation 9. Trump, Roy Moore, and the Rise of Scum America 10. When Idiots Pretend to be Smart 11. When is a Racist a Racist? 12. The GOP's Immoral Compass 13. SCOTUS Slaps Asshole Nation 14. Only America's Smartest Can Save Her Now 15. Pennsylvania Slaps Asshole Nation Hard 16. Asshole Nation Doesn't Even Want to be Decent 17. Why the Framers Tried to Keep Assholes Out of Government 18. Proud Denizens of Scum America: Evangelicals for Trump 19. We Do Not Want to Live in Asshole Nation! 20. Crush Scum America and Stop the Careening Eighteen-Wheeler of Democracy If you are disgusted by Trump and by knuckle-dragging conservatism, this book will be a pick-me-up during these dispiriting times. McMurrey speaks the language of anti-Trumpers. He recognizes that Trump mania is just the latests (and let's hope the last!) manifestation of conservatism--a worthless, unnecessary, and fear-filled ideology that promotes selfishness and anti-social attitudes. Pick up Asshole Nation for yourself and give copies to all your Trump-hating friends!