Summary
"Matt Taibbi's first piece on the 2016 presidential election, published in August 2015, opens with these words: "The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny. Given what's at stake, it's more like the opposite, like the first sign of the collapse of the United States as a global su... Full description
- Introduction
- The great derangement redux
- Inside the GOP clown car
- Donald Trump just stopped being funny
- The Republicans are officially the party of white paranoia
- Casting Clown Car, the movie
- The official GOP debate drinking game rules, part 2
- The case for Bernie Sanders
- The clown car rolls on
- America is too dumb for TV news
- It's too late to turn off Trump
- The official GOP debate drinking game rules, part 5
- The vampire squid tells us how to vote
- Morning blow: how Mika and Joe became Trump's lapdogs
- How American made Trump unstoppable
- Revenge of the simple: how George W. Bush gave rise to Donald Trump
- Why young people are right about Hillary Clinton
- RIP, GOP: how Trump's campaign is killing the Republican Party
- Democrats will learn all the wrong lessons from their brush with Bernie
- In response to Trump, another dangerous movement appears
- Trump's appetite for destruction: how Trump's disastrous convention doomed the GOP
- The summer of the media shill
- How Donald Trump lost his mojo
- The unconquerable Trump
- The failure and fury of Donald Trump
- President Trump: how America got it so wrong
- President Obama's last stand
- Epilogue.