A REVELATORY AND DARKLY COMIC ADVENTURE THROUGH A NATION AROUND THE VERGE OF THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN-FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS TO THE BASES OF BAGHDAD TO THE APOCALYPTIC CHURCHES FROM THE HEARTLAND

Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi attempt to describe the nature of George Bush’s America in the post-9/11 era and ended up vomiting demons in an evangelical church in Texas, driving the streets of Baghdad within an American convoy to nowhere, searching for phantom fighter jets in Congress, and falling in to the rabbit on the subject of The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Tale of Battle, Politics, and Religion on the Twilight of the American Empire opening from the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Matt discovered in his travels in the united states the fact that resilient blue condition/red condition narrative of American politics had become irrelevant. A big and growing chunk from the American populace was so transformed off-or radicalized-by electoral chicanery, a spineless news media, and the increasingly blatant is situated from our leaders (“they hate us for our independence”) that they deserted the politics mainstream entirely. They joined what he phone calls The Great Derangement.

Taibbi tells the storyplot of the new American madness by inserting himself into four defining American subcultures: The Army, where he sees himself mired in the grotesque black comedy from the American profession of Iraq; The System, where he follows the money-slicked path of legislation in Congress; The Level of resistance, where he doubles as main public antagonist and undercover member of the passionately bonkers 9/11 Truth Movement; and The Church, where he infiltrates a politically important apocalyptic mega-ministry in Texas and enters the lives of its desperate congregants. Collectively these four interwoven travels paint a portrait of a nation dangerously out of contact with fact and desperately looking for answers in every the wrong areas.

Funny, wise, and a bit heartbreaking, The Great Derangement can be an audaciously reported, sobering, and illuminating portrait of America at the end of the Bush era.