Demonic, Ann Coulter
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Demonic
How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America

Author: Ann Coulter

Narrator: Ann Coulter

Abridged: 5 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2011


Synopsis

The demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic. The Democratic Party activates mobs, depends on mobs, coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrates mobs—it is the mob. Sweeping in its scope and relentless in its argument, Demonic explains the peculiarities of liberals as standard groupthink behavior. To understand mobs is to understand liberals.
 
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. 


From the Hardcover edition.

Author Bio

Author, Lawyer, Political Commentator, are just a few of the titles held by Ann Coulter. She was born in New York City, New York in 1961. She likes to say that she knew she was a Conservative since attending Kindergarten. Her parents were staunch Republicans and brought up their daughter and two sons in a very Conservative household. While other children were reading fairy tales, Ann was reading books like The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater.

Ann had the privilege of having varying experiences, such as visiting her older brother in New York City, after her parents had moved to Connecticut. He had her read books on Conservatism, then quizzed her on them. If she passed the quiz, he took her bar hopping with his friends. She was 14 years old at the time.

Ann attended Cornell University where she helped found The Cornell Review......she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in history, and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School, and was editor of the Michigan Law Review. She was also President of the local chapter of the Federalist Society. She later served as a law clerk on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The highlight of her career though has been publishing twelve books that have been on the New York Times best seller list. Her public appearances include television and radio talk shows, and talking on college campuses. She speaks about modern Conservatism, and the hypocrisy of modern American Liberalism. Her books include: In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome; Adios America-Never Trust a Liberal Over Three; How to Talk to a Liberal-If You Must; Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, and several others.

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