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keep_left's JournalThere was a video game loosely based on this...
...called Shattered Union (2005). As time goes by, it seems like a more plausible future than anyone would wish.
Bots and paid trolls. Russian "boiler room" propaganda operations...
...not to mention those paid for by "think" tanks and billionaires. Our side needs more of that, to be honest. I've always wondered why labor unions aren't more proactive about setting up their own propaganda arms--something like what Media Matters does, but on a more grassroots level.
"They're not small-government conservatives. They're radical statist reactionaries"...
...said Noam Chomsky years ago.
The book featured in the WP article has been discussed here as well.
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzlhttps://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dying-of-whiteness-jonathan-m-metzl/1128997338
This is the subculture that Trump exploited when he turned Covid into another front in the culture war.
Yes, it's a little dagger or cross, usually. I think the practice started...
...about 20 years ago in the NYT Book Review. Their "sources and methods" found out about the right-wing "think" tanks and book clubs scamming the best-seller lists and acted accordingly, by creating an indicator to show that many of the book sales were not legit. It turns out that most of these books are bought for pennies on the dollar and given away at the "think" tank rubber-chicken fundraisers. Many are also given away as premiums for joining right-wing book clubs and media groups (I recall WorldNetDaily being one of them). Anything they can't give away goes to the dollar stores or is shredded.
Apropos, there was a minor scandal and lawsuit a few years ago where it was revealed that authors like Ann Coulter were being cheated out of royalties. Apparently there was a legally obscure clause in their contracts that stated (very unclearly) that any books that were part of this scam earned them no income at all. Couldn't happen to nicer people! 
The GOP is just asking for it. What do they want, more violence? Revolution?! Because...
...that's what's coming if they further immiserate the country.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17242617
Piling additional stress and strain onto what we are already facing is objectively evil. And they just can't seem to help themselves. 
I think the book title is incorrect. Most likely, the OP meant...
...The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-nineties-chuck-klosterman/1139432581
A review in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/books/review-nineties-chuck-klosterman.html
It appears that Michael Harris is the one being referenced in the Klosterman book.
Wow, for a moment there I thought the article was about Stop the Steal "founder" Ali Alexander...
...finally having to get a real job instead of hanging out all the time with grifters like Laura Loomer and Jacob Wohl.
I forgot about all of that. Thanks for the refresher course.
It's hard to keep up with so many atrocities, but that's the Trump regime for you.
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