When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
by John Ganz
View on GoodreadsThe politics people blame on 2016 were already loose in the early 1990s. Ganz shows you how, with the Cold War consensus gone and the economy shifting, far-right, conspiratorial and populist currents pushed into mainstream conservatism through figures like David Duke and Pat Buchanan, laying ground Trumpism later built on.
Core ideas
- The ideas men: Sam Francis carried neo-Confederate and white nationalist thinking into New Right circles, with Murray Rothbard and Rush Limbaugh also in the cast.
- Flashpoints: Ruby Ridge, Waco, the Rodney King beating and the 1992 Los Angeles riots anchor an era of militias, early conspiracy theories and speculation displacing manufacturing.
- The line to Bannon: Steve Bannon appears as a later heir to this lineage, which ties the early 1990s directly to Trumpism.
Published2024
Pages420
ISBN9780374605445
ReadJul 2024
