Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America

Ann Coulter

Jun 2011 · Sold by Forum Books

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The demon is a mob, and the mob is demonic. The Democratic Party activates mobs, depends on mobs, coddles mobs, publicizes and celebrates mobs—it is the mob. Sweeping in its scope and relentless in its argument, Demonic explains the peculiarities of liberals as standard groupthink behavior. To understand mobs is to understand liberals.
 
In her most provocative book to date, Ann Coulter argues that liberals exhibit all the psychological characteristics of a mob, for instance:
 
Liberal Groupthink: “The same mob mentality that leads otherwise law-abiding people to hurl rocks at cops also leads otherwise intelligent people to refuse to believe anything they haven’t heard on NPR.”

Liberal Schemes: “No matter how mad the plan is—Fraternité, the ‘New Soviet Man,’ the Master Race, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, Building a New Society, ObamaCare—a mob will believe it.”

Liberal Enemies: “Instead of ‘counterrevolutionaries,’ liberals’ opponents are called ‘haters,’ ‘those who seek to divide us,’ ‘tea baggers,’ and ‘right-wing hate groups.’ Meanwhile, conservatives call liberals ‘liberals’—and that makes them testy.”

Liberal Justice: “In the world of the liberal, as in the world of Robespierre, there are no crimes, only criminals.”

Liberal Violence: “If Charles Manson’s followers hadn’t killed Roman Polanski’s wife, Sharon Tate, Clinton would have pardoned him, too, and he’d probably be teaching at Northwestern University.”
 
Citing the father of mob psychology, Gustave Le Bon, Coulter catalogs the Left’s mob behaviors: the creation of messiahs, the fear of scientific innovation, the mythmaking, the preference for images over words, the lack of morals, and the casual embrace of contradictory ideas.

Coulter traces the history of the liberal mob to the French Revolution and Robespierre’s revolutionaries (delineating a clear distinction from America’s founding fathers), who simply proclaimed that they were exercising the “general will” before slaughtering their fellow citizens “for the good of mankind.”

Similarly, as Coulter demonstrates, liberal mobs, from student radicals to white-trash racists to anti-war and pro-ObamaCare fanatics today, have consistently used violence to implement their idea of the “general will.”

This is not the American tradition; it is the tradition of Stalin, of Hitler, of the guillotine—and the tradition of the American Left.

As the heirs of the French Revolution, Democrats have a history that consists of pandering to mobs, time and again, while Republicans, heirs to the American Revolution, have regularly stood for peaceable order.

Hoping to muddy this horrifying truth, liberals slanderously accuse conservatives of their own crimes—assassination plots, conspiracy theorizing, political violence, embrace of the Ku Klux Klan. Coulter shows that the truth is the opposite: Political violence—mob violence—is always a Democratic affair.

Surveying two centuries of mob movements, Coulter demonstrates that the mob is always destructive. And yet, she argues, beginning with the civil rights movement in the sixties, Americans have lost their natural, inherited aversion to mobs. Indeed, most Americans have no idea what they are even dealing with.
           
Only by recognizing the mobs and their demonic nature can America begin to defend itself.

Ratings and reviews

This has clearly got to be the work of a really mad extreme right Republican. To say that the Democratic Party is the wrong doer and the effective agent of many a riot (the mob per se), one has got to question the motive behind this biased, impassioned, pathos (root word is pathetic), fallacy Swiss-cheese riddled, propagandistic "informative" book. Exactly what it says on the tin: she is a Republican trying to bash on a political party that had nothing to do with some of the mob actions (French Revolution, Maoist gangs, etc...). It is not surprising that she did not capture peaceful mobs that demand change (Gandhi's peaceful revolt, Bus Boycotts and Martin Luther's walk to Washington, Parade of LBGT, etc) By directly linking demonic mobs to the inherently "evil" Democratic people and their ideology, she disgusts the democratic readers and delights the republicans, thus dividing the Americans further. Instead of trying to capture reasonable solutions to the Democratic ideals and reflect on what they could do, she puts angry dangerous mobs and liberal party in the same category. Although there are some information that really strikes true to even the most neutral of readers (I am the step child of Liberalism and Conservatism), she really needs to tone down her emotions and really delve into logical reasons to democratic ideology. Maybe she can do another book on the faults of Republicans (but I really doubt she will). If she follows logical reasoning, however, I doubt that more people would want to read the book; after all, most people want to read for enjoyment and to read something that is not to one's taste or realm of acceptance is harder to read (just imagine a Catholic priest reading an essay on why there is no God). It is really sad to see that books nowadays are to make money off of the like minded people instead of nurturing them of valuable information that makes them think for themselves. I hope in the future, Ann could fulfill something more academic and less journalistic.

Vernon Howard once wrote (Pathways to perfect living), "Self-freedom is a result of self-effort. Society, while seeming to offer help, can only make things worse. The masses are always wrong in their systems for personal deliverance....You can live with society, yet not share its psychic darkness. If you don't want to be nipped by the wolf-pack, you must stop running with it." Ann Coulter takes the liberals and/or Democratics apart in this book, and she's good at what she does. She put a whole new slant on the French revolution, and on many American liberals, newscasters, journalists, politicians, and "activists" like Kathy Boudin. She made me seethe at the politics that got the Central Park rapists excused. She's witty and does a good job punching out fearlessly against many prevailing "politically correct" stances by liberals. I like the way she's standing with one knee lifted on the back cover of the book. It's, well....provocative, which I'm sure is why she did it. I'm sorry, but all the while I was reading I kept fantasizing about her. I wonder if this physicality is part of her appeal to male readers, liberal and conservative both. She presents as a strong women, a strong women willing to go against the prevailing conventions. Anyway, I think if you agree with Mr. Howard's quote above, or any part of it, you can realize that Ms. Coulter is fighting a never-ending battle. It will do her no good, personally, until she stops running with the wolves. Running with the wolves is thrilling, exciting, confrontational, and some people get off on all that. I hope she's not one of those, but judging only from this book, I would estimate that she is. If she really wants to change minds, change people from Democrats to Republicans, this is not the way to do it. In fact, there is no way to do it. Politics changes nothing. I feel a little pity for Ms. Coulter, intelligent and attractive as she is, wasting her skills trying to change things that can't be changed. She must turn inward. But there are different temperaments for everyone. Given that Ms. Coulter is in the realm of administration, she is doing the best she can. I wish her well.

This is the first Ann Coulter book I had the pleasure to read. Since then I have read many. I highly recommend this book to any right thinking True American that loves TRUTH, JUSTICE and the AMERICAN WAY. She highlights the lies of liberal media and how the left view Democratic Presidents as demigods and the Messiah! BUY THIS BOOK! Just look at all the angry mob liberals writing books about Ann below her books.

About the author

ANN COULTER is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Guilty, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans, Godless, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), Treason, Slander, and High Crimes and Misdemeanors. She is the legal correspondent for Human Events and a syndicated columnist for Universal Press Syndicate. A graduate of Cornell University and University of Michigan Law School, she clerked for the Honorable Pasco Bowman II of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, and served as a litigator with the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual rights, with particular emphasis on freedom of speech, civil rights, and the free exercise of religion. A frequent guest on many TV shows, she was named one of the top 100 public intellectuals by federal judge Richard Posner in 2001. Her weekly column can be read at anncoulter.com.