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Reddit mentions of The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the “Alt-Right” (Kindle Single)
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| Release date | September 2016 |
I was going to write up a big thing, but honestly, I'm not the person to do it. The short version is that, no, they're not joking. Some people on the_donald probably are just trolls who are fucking around, but most of the people who post there are serious. Those posts mostly make it to the front page as a direct result of bots (check out /r/all/rising) but there still is a large population of real people who actively upvote and post on that stuff.
Its a complicated scene that ties in a lot of different threads of people together including 4chan/8chan shit posters, actual conservative americans, and legitimate racists with some serious overlap included between those groups. Although you might traditionally think of reddit users as young, educated, and socially liberal, it's important to remember that this site has long since expanded past the type of audience you might expect out of a similar site like slashdot and - just like in real life - there is now a huge range of people who post here.
If you're at all interested in learning more, I would suggest you read The Elephant in the Room, a short book by Jon Ronson detailing the interaction the Trump campaign has with the alt-right and - in particular - one of its leading members, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones (a man who believes Sandy Hook was a fake, orchestrated false flag government operation). Also, Ronson's book Them has some pretty haunting and prophetic stories in it about the KKK attempting to rebrand and mainstream its message starting in the late 90's/early 2000's to gain political influence that really resonates and appears to have really come to term.
There is a book called The Elephant in the Room by Jon Ronson that details the influence Alex Jones has on Donald Trump.
No matter how trivial YOU find him, the person leading this country takes him quite seriously. That is something none of us can afford to take lightly. Trump quoted Jones at the RNC! Called him "Very Smart" and meets with the clown. Talk about a Confederacy of Dunces, we got one now and it's not nearly as entertaining as the book by John Kennedy Toole.
My favourite line from Jon Ronson's The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the "Alt-Right" was when he was talking to a Trump supporter who told him Hillary was a 'known luciferian' and he replies 'She's not a known luciferian', 'well yes and no' comes the response. Where I come from the only people who believe in luciferians and satanists are 13 year old death metal fans.
> The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the “Alt-Right
It's free to read (in the US) if you have Amazon Prime.
If you read Jon Ronson's Kindle single about Alex Jones and the RNC, apparently Trump tried to get Beck on board with a trip to Mar-a-Lago, and Beck viewed it as manipulative.
He also had a little kindle single about the 2016 campaign and the alt-right, featuring a reunion with Alex Jones (it was written before the election, so Ronson was still confident Trump would remain a fringe character like Jones).
If anyone would like to learn about Alex Jones I recommend a book by a guy who actually knows the guy. Jon Ronson actually happens to know Alex Jones. He worked with him for a while and they diverged. One went into conspiracy theories and the other into journalism. The book goes into a lot of it. He also spends a lot of time talking about Roger Stone and more. I... I just really like the book.
Also, Ronson's short piece "Elephant in the Room."
https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Room-Journey-Campaign-Alt-Right-ebook/dp/B01LXOO7UQ
I think Ronson is the perfect person to do a long expose on Jones. Him and Jones have a long relationship and Jones seems to trust Ronson.
Here it is!
I normally do link books whenever I mention them, don’t know why I didn’t this time.
Also, Ronson wrote a short follow-up in 2016 at the height of the campaign season, The Elephant in the Room, about Jones, the Alt-Right, and the Trump Campaign, generally about the rise of extreme conspiracy theories becoming mainstream and a presidential candidate (sadly now POTUS) embracing them and endorsing someone like Jones, who has now become famous and people all over buy into his crap. Interesting section where Ronson “reconnects” with Jones, 20 years after their adventure. Which, by the way, Jones had a completely different interpretation of, naturally.