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
Wakeup 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
America 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