Asshole Nation: Trump and the Rise of Scum America

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.

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.