Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us

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A CNN contributor, former Ted Cruz staffer, and "Never Trump" adherent reveals a shocking truth: Donald Trumps lies and fabrications dont horrify Americathey enthrall usand explains how we can avoid falling for them.

"Can you believe what Donald Trump said"

In Gaslighting America, Carpenter breaks down Trumps formula, showing why its practically foolproof, playing his victims, the media, the Democrats, and the Republican fence-sitters perfectly. She traces how this tactic started with Nixon, gained traction with Bill Clinton, and exploded under Trump. If you think Trump is driving you crazy, its because he is. Now, in this urgent book, she explains how to withstand the fire.

Where some people see lies, Trumps fierce followers see something different. A commitment to winning at all costs; there is nothing he could say that would erode their support at long as its in the name of taking down his political enemies.

His opponents on the left and right continue to act as if his fake narratives and conspiracy theories will bring him down, when in fact, they are the ruses that raised him up.

As a conservative former staffer to a competing presidential campaign, Amanda Carpenter witnessed her fellow Republicans fall in line behind Trump. As a political commentator, she was publicly smeared by one of his supporters on live television without a shred of evidence supporting the allegations. Slowly, she watched her entire party succumb to Trump and become defenders of his tactics, and Gaslighting America may be the only hope to bring them back to reality.

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"Carpenter, a tough veteran of GOP politics and herself a target of Trump smears, shrewdly analyzes the methods by which this unworthy president and his scummy team insert their malicious fictions into the U.S. media ecosystem."--David Frum, author Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
"The hallmark of a true autocrat is the ability to harness the potency of a lie and use it to alter the citizens' perception of what is truth. Donald Trump is a master at using the shock value of lies, spin, and disinformation to challenge the very existence of observable reality. Amanda Carpenter's Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us brilliantly threads the needle to explain how Trump exploits the media and the voters' emotions to weave his own presidential tapestry through a withering litany of lies. The 2020 election is coming, and in this book, Carpenter shows exactly how Trump will try to deceive, distract, and delude America again."--Malcolm Nance, Author of The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies Tried to Steal the 2016 Election and Counterterrorism Analyst for NBC News/MSNBC
"We live in dangerous political times, when untruth on all sides seems to prevail over decency. Read Amanda's book and get armed against the 'gaslighting' strategy that's sure to dominate our politics for years to come."--Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire and host of The Ben Shapiro Show

Author Bio

Amanda Carpenter (aka Thea Harrison) resides in northern California. She wrote her first book, a romance, when she was nineteen and had sixteen romances published under the name Amanda Carpenter. She took a break from writing to collect a couple of graduate degrees and a grown child. Her graduate degrees are in Philanthropic Studies and Library Information Science, but her first love has always been writing fiction. She's back with her paranormal Elder Races series under the pseudonym Thea Harrison.