The Advent of Trump the First - Part I
Paradise Lost
491 PAGES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE……………………………………………………………..…......... 5
BOOK STRUCTURE
General content……………………………………………………….....… 14
Detailed chapter description………………………………………….. 16
PART I – THE FALL OF AMERICA
The unraveling of America…………………………………….…….…. 20
Introduction- Paradise Lost………………………………………..….. 31
Democracy Apocalypse now……….................................... 40
Joe Biden State of Disunion Address……………………..…..…. 46
How did we get there? ………………………………….………...…….. 49
The gorilla in the room: the US Supreme Court……............69
The power of the word……………………………………………...….... 74
The weaponization of the word…………………………………....… 78
What tyrants fear the most 81
Wake-up call to Fahrenheit 451…………………………………....…. 83
The glorification of the “F” word ......................................87
The end of civility…………………………………….......………....……107
We, the people – How did we get there?.........................113
The things we took for granted……….................………......115
Free speech………………………………………………….………..........116
Liberty…………………………………………………………...…........…….121
Equal justice ………………………………………………..……….....…..132
The things we falsely assumed
Our well-founded rightfulness……………………...................145
American exceptionalism…………………………………………..…...167
How the world sees us………………………………………….……....172
How do we see others…………………………………………..……....176
The way we should see ourselves……………………………..…..199
Barbarians at the gate - American imperialism……………..220
Patriotism – the gatekeeper………………………………….……….271
The things we ignored................................................... 281
America’s latent fascism………………………………………...…..…282
The elephant in the room – Racism……...........................301
The weight of history…………………………….…………………….….327
The power of conspiracy theories – QAnon……………………338
The impact of religion on politics……………………………….....360
God, money and politics………………………………………….………373
The legitimization of corporate greed ............................378
Social inequalities………………………………………..…….....………387
The things that finally did us in .....................................400
A flawed democracy…………………………….………………………..401
A free-for-all voting system………………………..………………..417
Politics as the source of all evil…………………………..………..433
The two-party trap………………………………………….….………….445
The disinformation factories…………………………………..……455
Lies, fake news, alternative truth,
and conspiracy theories................................................466
Index ............................................................................479