Amanda Marcotte is a Senior Political Writer for Salon.
Before this, she spent a decade as a freelance journalist, writing
regularly for Slate, the Rolling Stone, the Daily Beast, USA Today,
Talking Points Memo, and the Los Angeles Times. Marcotte’s
expertise is in covering the American right, a beat she was drawn
to after growing up in a conservative Texas household with Fox News
and Rush Limbaugh-loving parents. She got her start covering
reproductive rights, which further familiarized her with the
organizing and rhetorical strategies of the Christian right. Since
then, she’s expanded her reporting on right wing politics, covering
everything from climate change denialism to the activities of the
gun lobby.
David Talbot is the New York Times bestselling author of
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and The Devil’s
Chessboard. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Salon
and has written for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Time. He
lives in San Francisco.
“Peering darkly through the mirror of our modern tech-driven,
alt-right-friendly culture, Marcotte skillfully illuminates the
ascendance of our worst impulses both on the Internet and in the
real world. Troll Nation is simultaneously disturbing and
insightful.”
—David Neiwert, author of Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical
Right in the Age of Trump
“Donald Trump is, among many awful things, the prototypical
Internet troll: a master of using social media to hype his business
exploits and slag his enemies – most notably President Obama, the
black president Trump insisted was born in Kenya. In 2016, Marcotte
shows us, he enlisted an army of sad-sack white male keyboard
warriors, from the battlefields of the men’s rights movement,
Gamergate, the bowels of Reddit and white nationalist message
boards, to conquer the White House, where he is now the
Troll-in-Chief, the undisputed head of Troll Nation. Where
traditional conservatism sought to best its enemies with ideas and
policies, Troll Nation bullies, demeans and subjugates the other
side. And where the traditional right couched its anti-feminist
policies as designed to protect women, troll conservatism strips
off that veneer: Uppity women are ruining the country, they
believe, and they must be used, abused, mocked, subordinated; the
pussy-grabbing president got that right. Troll Nation also reminds
readers that the angry mob is just a very noisy minority. The
trolled majority has truth, reason and numbers on its side – but it
needs to wake up and fight for a democracy that’s been degraded by
this assault on the very notion of truth itself.”
—Joan Walsh, national correspondent at The Nation and CNN
“Trumpism is not an anomaly caused by one man. It's the
continuation of decades-long right-wing efforts to exploit racial
and cultural resentments. Amanda Marcottee knows this, and in Troll
Nation, she deftly and sharply explores the dark and troubling
currents that have led to the current crisis. Her book is a
disturbing but valuable guide to what's happening in American
politics.”
—David Corn, Washington bureau chief, Mother Jones
“Ever feel like you’ve been cheated? Amanda Marcotte drains the
swamp and reveals a Republican Party hijacked by grifters and
frauds. Honest conservatives who want their party back must read
this -- as should anyone outraged over how easy it has been for
right-wing con artists to hijack our democracy.”
—David Daley, author of Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count
“Peering darkly through the mirror of our modern tech-driven,
alt-right-friendly culture, Marcotte skillfully illuminates the
ascendance of our worst impulses both on the Internet and in the
real world. Troll Nation is simultaneously disturbing and
insightful.”
—David Neiwert, author of Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical
Right in the Age of Trump
“Donald Trump is, among many awful things, the prototypical
Internet troll: a master of using social media to hype his business
exploits and slag his enemies – most notably President Obama, the
black president Trump insisted was born in Kenya. In 2016, Marcotte
shows us, he enlisted an army of sad-sack white male keyboard
warriors, from the battlefields of the men’s rights movement,
Gamergate, the bowels of Reddit and white nationalist message
boards, to conquer the White House, where he is now the
Troll-in-Chief, the undisputed head of Troll Nation. Where
traditional conservatism sought to best its enemies with ideas and
policies, Troll Nation bullies, demeans and subjugates the other
side. And where the traditional right couched its anti-feminist
policies as designed to protect women, troll conservatism strips
off that veneer: Uppity women are ruining the country, they
believe, and they must be used, abused, mocked, subordinated; the
pussy-grabbing president got that right. Troll Nation also reminds
readers that the angry mob is just a very noisy minority. The
trolled majority has truth, reason and numbers on its side – but it
needs to wake up and fight for a democracy that’s been degraded by
this assault on the very notion of truth itself.”
—Joan Walsh, national correspondent at The Nation and CNN
“Trumpism is not an anomaly caused by one man. It's the
continuation of decades-long right-wing efforts to exploit racial
and cultural resentments. Amanda Marcottee knows this, and in Troll
Nation, she deftly and sharply explores the dark and troubling
currents that have led to the current crisis. Her book is a
disturbing but valuable guide to what's happening in American
politics.”
—David Corn, Washington bureau chief, Mother Jones
“Ever feel like you’ve been cheated? Amanda Marcotte drains the
swamp and reveals a Republican Party hijacked by grifters and
frauds. Honest conservatives who want their party back must read
this -- as should anyone outraged over how easy it has been for
right-wing con artists to hijack our democracy.”
—David Daley, author of Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count
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