![]() ![]() I enjoyed reading this book because I find views contrary to my own fascinating and sometimes challenging, because these questions are important, because, sadly, I too can get sucked into the laughing at the weird and the stereotypical. It isn't difficult to figure out why the political right, why the Reagans, the Bushes and the Trumps, would pander to the religious right and the nativists, but why do so many people become exclusionary and hostile to outsiders, why do so many turn to supernaturalism and bibliolatry? View Larger Image Dragons of God: A Journey Through Far-Right America Vincent Coppola. ![]() ![]() A more useful book would tell similar stories and attempt to make sense of them. Items related to Dragons of God: A Journey Through Far-Right America. There are a few exceptions when his humanity shows such as his coverage of the Ruby Ridge obscenity when hundreds of federal officers managed to kill a newborn, a boy and their mother such as his treatment of the plight of family farmers. ![]() Journalist Vincent Coppola is too prone to focus conveniently on political extremists of the right rather than on the socio-political forces they are reacting to, too prone to make the cheap snide joke at the undereducated underclass. In case you haven't noticed, something is extremely wrong with our society. ![]()
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