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In her most provocative book to date, Ann Coulter argues that liberals exhibit all the psychological characteristics of a mob, for instance:
Liberal Groupthink: “The same mob mentality that leads otherwise law-abiding people to hurl rocks at cops also leads otherwise intelligent people to refuse to believe anything they haven’t heard on NPR.”
Liberal Schemes: “No matter how mad the plan is—Fraternité, the ‘New Soviet Man,’ the Master Race, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, Building a New Society, ObamaCare—a mob will believe it.”
Liberal Enemies: “Instead of ‘counterrevolutionaries,’ liberals’ opponents are called ‘haters,’ ‘those who seek to divide us,’ ‘tea baggers,’ and ‘right-wing hate groups.’ Meanwhile, conservatives call liberals ‘liberals’—and that makes them testy.”
Liberal Justice: “In the world of the liberal, as in the world of Robespierre, there are no crimes, only criminals.”
Liberal Violence: “If Charles Manson’s followers hadn’t killed Roman Polanski’s wife, Sharon Tate, Clinton would have pardoned him, too, and he’d probably be teaching at Northwestern University.”
Citing the father of mob psychology, Gustave Le Bon, Coulter catalogs the Left’s mob behaviors: the creation of messiahs, the fear of scientific innovation, the mythmaking, the preference for images over words, the lack of morals, and the casual embrace of contradictory ideas.
Coulter traces the history of the liberal mob to the French Revolution and Robespierre’s revolutionaries (delineating a clear distinction from America’s founding fathers), who simply proclaimed that they were exercising the “general will” before slaughtering their fellow citizens “for the good of mankind.”
Similarly, as Coulter demonstrates, liberal mobs, from student radicals to white-trash racists to anti-war and pro-ObamaCare fanatics today, have consistently used violence to implement their idea of the “general will.”
This is not the American tradition; it is the tradition of Stalin, of Hitler, of the guillotine—and the tradition of the American Left.
As the heirs of the French Revolution, Democrats have a history that consists of pandering to mobs, time and again, while Republicans, heirs to the American Revolution, have regularly stood for peaceable order.
Hoping to muddy this horrifying truth, liberals slanderously accuse conservatives of their own crimes—assassination plots, conspiracy theorizing, political violence, embrace of the Ku Klux Klan. Coulter shows that the truth is the opposite: Political violence—mob violence—is always a Democratic affair.
Surveying two centuries of mob movements, Coulter demonstrates that the mob is always destructive. And yet, she argues, beginning with the civil rights movement in the sixties, Americans have lost their natural, inherited aversion to mobs. Indeed, most Americans have no idea what they are even dealing with.
Only by recognizing the mobs and their demonic nature can America begin to defend itself.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780307885364 |
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Publisher: | The Crown Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 06/07/2011 |
Sold by: | Random House |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 368 |
Sales rank: | 617,958 |
File size: | 2 MB |
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Table of Contents
Part I The Psychology of the Liberal
1 The Liberal Mob 3
2 American Idols: The Mob's Compulsion to Create Messiahs 16
3 Contradictions: You Can Lead a Mob to Water, But You Can't Make it Think 35
4 Crackpot Conspiracy Theories-or, as Liberals Call Them, "Theories" 51
5 I'll See Your Birth Certificate Conspiracy Theory and Raise You One October Surprise 79
Part II The Historical Context of the Liberal
6 The French Revolution: When Liberals Attack 99
7 The French Revolution Part Deux: Come for the Beheadings, Stay for the Rapes! 115
8 The American Revolution: How to Throw a Revolution without Losing Your Head 129
Part III The Violent Tendencies of the Liberal
9 The Sixties: The Mob Goes to College 157
10 Civil Rights and the Mob: George Wallace, Bull Connor, Orval Faubus, and Other Democrats 173
11 Timothy McVeigh Is Now a Tea Partier 196
12 Imaginary Violence from the Right vs. Actual Violence from the Left 208
13 Raped Twice: Liberals and the Central Park Rape 224
Part IV Why Would Anyone Be a Liberal?
14 Status Anxiety: Please Like Me! 249
15 Inheritors of the French Revolution: Liberals ♥ Mobs 264
16 The Totalitarian Instinct and Sexual Perversity of Liberals 275
17 Lucifer: The Ultimate Mob Boss 287
Appendix 297
Notes 305
Acknowledgments 339
Index 341