How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America

Mobbed us what I feel, defiled by the Chicago gangsters that have taken over our government, invaded our privacy, tried to take away our fire arms, and ruined our health care system. They have bullied us at home and made friends with our enemies abroad!

Back in the president Nixon days, we were called the silent majority' only now we have a spokes person. Ann puts our feelings about liberals into words and delivers our message in a good way.And she isn't hard to look at either.

I know Ann Coulter can be caustic and annoying with her grandiose statements and attitude, but this book was filled with FACTS that outline how the liberal Democratic party has become, for a lack of a better word, a mob. As a former democrat, I've been disgusted with the mob mentality that has risen in the democratic party, and Ms. Coulter goes back in history to outline how it's become like that. It really is eye opening to read how biased the media has become (again, supported with undisputed facts) when covering right wing and left wing agendas. The book is well written, informative, full of historical and modern day facts that support her statements, and of course written with a little edge, which Ms. Coulter is known for. Very good book, and one I wish more Americans would read - a history lesson that isn't boring, and one that is extremely relevant to our times.

As usual, Ann Coulter presents her material with eye-opening clarity. I loved it. Her presentation of the "mob mentality" left me with a better understanding of human nature and I see examples daily.

Ann Coulter can be called many things; controversial, partisan, pugnacious, acerbic. One thing she never is dull or uninteresting in her writing. Coulter is a natural polemicist and pulls no punches as she attacks Liberals. Her jabs are always right on target and do not fail to draw blood. Although she writes with a cutting tone, she is able to display a leaven of humor that distinguishes her from mere spewers of bile from the Left and Right.

In her latest work, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America, Coulter uses the 1896 book by French sociologist The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, to explain the actions of Liberals, especially their preference for acting in mobs. This might seem to be her usual partisanship but even a casual observer of politics cannot help but notice that Liberals often form mobs and protest. Conservatives never do. The TEA parties might fairly be called anti-mob s since the participants obeyed the laws and even picked up their trash.

The best part of Demonic is part 2, the Historical Context of the Liberal, in which Ann Coulter gives a brief summary of the French Revolution and contrasts it with the American Revolution, emphasizing the preference of the former's leaders for mob rule and the latter's for ordered liberty.

The only fault that I can find with Ann Coulter is that she is sometimes overly simplistic, equating Democrats with Liberals with both being irredeemably bad. For example, in Chapter 12, she relates the history of political violence in America, noting that every presidential assassin has been a Liberal. That is true of Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, and Lee Harvey Oswald, but it is a stretch for John Wilkes Booth. The Ku Klux Klan was, largely, a Democratic organization, but the men who made up the Klan had a very different viewpoint than most Democrats today.

Still, I highly recommend Demonic to any Conservative who wants to know more about why Liberals act the way they do, or who just wants something fun to read. Liberals with a weak heart should probably avoid reading anything by Ann Coulter.

Ann Coulter has written a delectably delicious, if not fattening, work of prose. She has succinctly and rhetorically demonstrated how a theory can be applied to a historical event and how that has influenced our current system. I cannot say that same for any scholars in academia.

Ann Coulter knows all about the culture wars. She has been involved with them for decades now. She is a seasoned warrior in these battles, and she knows very well the nature and tactics of the adversary. She has written a number of best sellers on these themes, and her newest volume offers more of the same.

Coulter is both a Christian and a conservative. Thus she is not afraid to draw upon biblical truths as she dissects the liberal mind and its radical agendas. She ties in the violent mob reactions against Jesus, based as they were on the demonic, with the way all radical leftist regimes and movements also utilise the mob for their purposes.

She draws heavily upon a 1896 volume by French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon. His book, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, was the first study on the mass mind, and the way in which mob violence operates. It provides a nice backdrop for analysing contemporary leftist coercive utopians.

Of course the grand example of leftist agitation and utilisation of the mob is the French Revolution. Coulter spends several chapters discussing it in some detail. As she correctly notes, "To understand liberals, one must understand the French Revolution."

Liberals - or leftists - of today can trace their lineage straight back to the radicalism of the late eighteenth century. All the tricks of the trade we find so characteristic of today's radical left were present in this bloody revolution. The bloodshed, violence and demonic mob activity has been chronicled plenty of times before, but Coulter offers a nice summary.

Anything associated with the old order was targeted by the mobs, but anything having to do with the church was especially focused on. Priests, nuns and lay people were massacred in large numbers, while churches were destroyed and one sacrilege after another was carried out.

Some of the gruesome descriptions of what the mobs did to ordinary men, women and children are almost too hard to stomach. Rape, torture, mutilation, and hideous forms of killing were the norm. If one had to illustrate the actions of the demonic, surely this was it. It seemed there were not enough guillotines to keep up with all the carnage and slaughter.

And all the while the crowds were cheering this on. The Jacobin program of "de-Christianization" was especially ferocious and repellent. Indeed, "the word `vandalisme' had to be invented to describe" their actions as they desecrated churches, looted Christian properties, and destroyed sacred art. The revolutionaries sought to "completely destroy Christianity and replace it with a religion of the state".

Anything associated with Christianity was open to attack. Citizens were even forced to drop their Christian names. A new Revolutionary Calendar was established, with the months renamed, and even clocks were redesigned in decimal time.

If all this sounds somewhat familiar, it should. We see the same sort of thing happening today all over the Western world, and much of Coulter's book is about documenting these moves by the leftwing secularists to wipe out the Christian faith and Christian morality.

She also rightly contrasts the French Revolution with the American Revolution. American history "is the exact opposite of the French Revolution and their wretched masses guillotining the aristocracy and clergy. . . . The American Revolution was a movement based on ideas, painstakingly argued by serious men in the process of creating what would become the freest, most prosperous nation in world history. The French Revolution was a revolt of the mob."

Indeed, "it was the progenitor of the horrors of the Bolshevik Revolution, Hitler's Nazi party, Mao's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's slaughter, and America's periodic mob uprisings." She notes many obvious points of difference. "Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, the date our written demand for independence from Britain based on `Nature's God' was released to the world. The French celebrate Bastille Day," a day of violence, mayhem and mob action.

The American revolutionary symbol is the Liberty Bell, while the French symbol is the "national razor" - the guillotine. The closest thing to mob action the Americans experienced was the Boston Tea Party. As Coulter reminds us, there were "no beheadings, disembowelings, or defilement of corpses - or any corpses at all".

Her book offers case after case of leftist mob mayhem in modern day America. She looks at many keys issues in today's culture wars, such as race relations, the economy, national security, and so on. She contrasts the conservative penchant for conserving and preserving, and the leftist addiction to radical change and destruction.

She correctly notes that "The history of liberalism consists of replacing things that work with things that sounded good on paper." Indeed, "Liberals never bother to ask whether there might have been a reason for a thousand-years-old convention such as marriage. They don't care. Their approach is to rip out society's foundations without considering whether they serve any purpose."

As with all of Coulter's writings, her latest book is a grab-bag of memorable quotes. One really hates to describe what she is writing about, and instead simply offer plentiful quotes. Here are a few more: "Liberals are constantly pushing for the Rousseauian approach to governance in defiance of our history and Constitution. They not only believe there is a `general will,' they are sure their policies express it. Instead of allowing ordinary people to have more control over their lives, Democrats produce inflexible, universal plans, sublimely confident of their ability to build a perfect system."

Free speech is certainly under attack from the lefties: "Liberals supported free speech until they realized, years later, how bad speech is for them and began demanding hate crimes legislation, speech codes, and sexual harassment laws restricting speech."

Moreover, "Following their totalitarian forebears, liberals went from punishing acts to punishing thoughts and motives in the blink of an eye. In lieu of class crimes and counterrevolutionaries, American liberals have given us `hate crimes,' `disparate impact' rules, `sexists,' and `bigots.' Acts are irrelevant; your motives are on trial. You are presumed guilty and acquittals are rare."

Much more can be said about - and quoted from in - this invaluable new book. Once again Coulter takes no prisoners as she dissects the foolishness - indeed, dangerousness - of the radical left. With razor-sharp insight and humour she does an admirable job of showing us why the radical left agenda should be avoided like the plague.

Along with Mark Steyn, Ann Coulter is probably the best conservative writer on the scene today. Anything she writes is gold, and is well worth getting, digesting and passing on. Three cheers for Ann Coulter.

I am currently approximately half way through reading it. What I find most interesting and informative, is how easily we, as humans, fall into group think and how dangerous this is. If we do not think for ourselves using common sense, reason, facts, and logic, we WILL fall for every crackpot idea or theory that some "intellectual mastermind" dreams up.

In this book Ann Coulter develops an uncanny insight as to how humanity can be divided into two categories. Correct thinking and incorrect thinking. These categories are labeled individualism and collectivism. Individuals are always with others making choices for themselves (where wrong choices are self absorbing while correct choices benefit society), but collectivists are individuals hiding behind the facade of self-worship making choices for themselves without the responsibility of owning up to making a wrong choice (therefore, society suffering the consequences). A very good book.

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"Demonic - how the liberal mob is endangering America"

I read Ann Coulter's new book this weekend (6.19.2011): Demonic.

Over the years I have read a fair amount about the French Revolution, including its depiction in a few novels, notably A Tale of Two Cities and Ninety-Three (Victor Hugo). And I knew that the assault on the Bastille was a classic mindless mob action. But it hadn't dawned on me that the French "celebrate" Bastille Day as a national holiday, much the same (Coulter points out) as it would be if Americans made a national holiday to celebrate the LA Riots.

Coulter is a "quick" read, mostly the consequence of her non-scholarly style ----- damaged by "quips" that she inserts like a talking head scoring a "hit and run" point on an adversary.

On the other hand, there is a serious theme; and the theme is colored in richly ---- drawing upon example after example of "breathtaking cognitive dissonance" to hammer home her message that the mob behavior driving today's politicians is "free of all reasoning and all proof."

Her theme is the irrationality of mobs in history and the alignment of current-day Democrats with the mobs past and present. There's too much documentation for us to claim that she's making too much out of a superficial coincidence.

She documents how the Democrats will support any mob; I hadn't realized just how numerous were the instances of mob support thus tendered. "No matter how many carcasses pile up, liberals simply cannot shake their belief that government is the key to improving the human condition."

These are some examples of the liberal mindset: (a) support for Mao and the Chinese Communist party, as they murdered78 million people; (b) support for the Cambodian Khmer Rouge, as they murdered 2.7-million Asians; (c) support for North Korea in the early 1950s (by the Democratic candidate for congress and Los Angeles Times columnist)
Robert Scheer reported that he had been to North Korea and he had seen the future that works(!); (d) support for North Vietnam; (e) support for segregation in the South from the Civil war until the late 1960s; strong appeal to the racist mobs. All the while the senior Democratic senator was a former Klansman; (f) support for the group overthrowing the Shah of Iran; (g) support for the Soviet Union; ("Teddy Kennedy was sending secret messages to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov complaining about Reagan"); that Communist mob murdered tens of millions of its own citizens over the years; (h) support for Obamacare; "no matter how mad the plan is (the "New Soviet Man;" the Master Race; the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, Building a New Society or The New Deal, or the Great Society) a mob will believe it; (i) support for criminals; litigating to let criminals go free, as if their real purpose were to create chaos from public loss of faith in the system --- a system which obviously doesn't work if the criminals are turned free; (j) and, as they say, much more.

Coulter begins to make her case with the mob that was the French Revolution. And we are treated to the reminder that the inspiration for the French Revolution was Rousseau's fantasy that the elites' job is to fetter out what is the "general will" of the people. This is the same "general will" that was explored in the Woodrow Wilson biography, Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism (Pestritto) which I reported on about a year ago. Wilson was a great advocate of racial segregation and of forcing his notion of the "general will" upon everyone else. ("Rousseau saw the government as the vessel to implement the "general will.")

In American history, the expression "public interest" was used more commonly than the term "general will." But the concept always entailed the abrogation of individual rights so that the elite "leaders" could FORCE their will on everyone. "Public interest" has ALWAYS referred to the interests of some citizens at the expense of other citizens.

Coulter focuses on how the mob mentality organizes behind some elites' notion of what is the "general will" or "public interest." Every bloodthirsty regime claims to be redressing the wrongs of previous regimes --- all the way up to an including Obama forcing Obamacare down the throats of Americans. With Obamacare, the Democrats were happy to suppress freedom to enact what they felt was the "general will." They played to the mob (unthinking) mentality to push the bill into law.

Notice that the mob never sides with those who seek to protect human life and individual rights. The mob sides only with those who seek to punish.

When it comes to Civil Rights, she paints a nice portrait of how the Democrats officially appealed to the racist mob in the South for decades; how the Democrat leaders were the ones steadfastly AGAINST civil rights legislation; how Lyndon Johnson voted against every civil rights bill during his time in the Senate ---- but once he ascended to the Presidency, he could no longer appeal to regional mobs....his tactic was summed up when he said: "Be ready to take up the (Negro) bill again." Democrats changed mobs once blacks were finally voting in high enough numbers to make a difference at the ballot box ----- and then they claimed credit for everything their party had ferociously blocked since the Civil War(!). [It was the Democrats' obstructionism that created the civil rights protests in the first place.]

When it comes to real violence vs. allegations of violence, she cites scores of individual acts of violence show that the actual violence comes almost entirely from the Left. But accusations of incitement to violence are always against, not the actual perpetrators of violence, but against the Right

It turns out that Coulter may be right: that liberals tend to defend mobs; that Liberals are the "some of the people" you can fool all the time.

You definitely get the sense that her accounting comes with a slant; but it's hard to conclude that she's outright wrong.

If you were thinking of reading Demonic, I hope this blurb helped....

While I thoroughly enjoyed the book, I do not believe all liberals are mob-driven psychotics totally bereft of reason and logic. Just most of them. No, I take that back. Actually, maybe only five percent of admitted liberals fit that description. Because I believe in a difference between liberals and leftists. Most people associated with the mob are radical leftists. But despite the fact that radical leftists comprise only a small percentage of people who vote on the left, they now dominate the politics and general direction of what is considered the left. Liberals are mostly meek followers...although many of them wish they had the guts (or insanity) to do the things their more radical brethren do. If you don't believe that the left currently dominates the irrational and violent politic scene, ask yourself what political philosophy has members who run down streets in cities holding international economic forums, meetings etc. destroying property and creating chaos? Which group as a matter of course throws objects like food and whatnot at members of the opposite political philosophy. What political group disrupts meetings of the opposite political philosophy? What group shouts down members of the opposite political philosophy when the people of the latter try to give a speech at a university or some public forum? Which group tries not just to debate but to silence members of the political group they do not agree with? Which political adherents gleefully vandalize property belonging to people of the opposite political philosophy? Or of people whose political philosophies they don't even know as in the case of the wackos who vandalize SUVs? It's always the left...let me repeat that...IT'S ALWAYS THE LEFT!!!Today's leftists, as always, are the biggest totalitarians you'll find. They have little to no respect for the rule of law unless a particular decision favors them. They're more than happy to tell you how to run your life. This is from a person who was almost a communist when a teen but fortunately read Solzhenitsyn's Gulag trilogy forty years ago.

Ann could not be more correct in analyzing the liberal left, and we may well be seeing the angry mobs in the streets as she predicts. Interesting that the negative Coulter reviews never analyze the content, they just hate Ann Coulter because she accurately describe the vacant ideas of the left. Liberalism works in a classroom setting - everywhere else in reality it is an utter failure.

Reviewers generally respond to Ms. Coulter on the basis of how they like her politics. I'd like to point out that the quality of her writing is astonishing. She's one of thebest essayists in America today, and receives little notice for it. As Andrew Klavan -- another very underrated writer -- notes, if she were a liberal she'd get a Pulitzer. Read her for her writing -- but read her.

The chapters on the French Revolution are some of the best in the book -- and a fresh view of stuff I never heard about in school, including college. Serious students of politics should read this book to understand today's "partisan divide." It's not just self-aggrandizement, folks -- there are serious differences in world view here, and you can't understand them without understanding history.

There are very few writers out there who I'd really like to spend a couple of hours with, but Ms. Coulter is one of them. I really like the way her mind works, although I don't agree with her on everything. And I like her spirit, as well. People who haven't actually read her stuff so far could easily start with this book, and then read "Treason." The section on Joe McCarthy is great.

Reviewers generally respond to Ms. Coulter on the basis of how they like her politics. I'd like to point out that the quality of her writing is astonishing. She's one of thebest essayists in America today, and receives little notice for it. As Andrew Klavan -- another very underrated writer -- notes, if she were a liberal she'd get a Pulitzer. Read her for her writing -- but read her.

The chapters on the French Revolution are some of the best in the book -- and a fresh view of stuff I never heard about in school, including college. Serious students of politics should read this book to understand today's "partisan divide." It's not just self-aggrandizement, folks -- there are serious differences in world view here, and you can't understand them without understanding history.

There are very few writers out there who I'd really like to spend a couple of hours with, but Ms. Coulter is one of them. I really like the way her mind works, although I don't agree with her on everything. And I like her spirit, as well. People who haven't actually read her stuff so far could easily start with this book, and then read "Treason." The section on Joe McCarthy is great.

Lucid, cogent, penetrating insights and a profound grasp the current socio-political weltenschauung of liberals. I found it a refreshing breath of fresh air after the acrid, stifling hot air of political correctness.

As always, Ann Coulter is humorous as she points out the absurdities of liberal thought. She builds a strong case for liberalism and its followers being not merely wrong-minded, but, by any reasonable analysis, demonstrably evil. Mindless, robotic liberals control most of America, and their malevolence becomes more so each day. There are serious ideas to be considered in this book, but I doubt liberals have the rich individuality it take to understand them.

Ann's books are always so educational with information we often aren't given in normal history books as well as in today's news. She is very sharp and gives well constructed arguments for her point of view. Her books are always a fun read as well.

This book is simply outstanding. I have read many political books over the years and this ranks up there with some of the best. Until reading this book, I was not a big fan of Ann Coulter. Several years ago I tried reading a couple of her previous books, which thoroughly attack the liberal left, and found them too caustic and too exaggerated. Or so I thought at the time. I'm older and wiser now. As I read "Demonic" I could not help but think how true and insightful her observations are when describing the mob mentality of the Left. Liberals really are pernicious. I did not necessarily need this book to convince me of that, but it brought clarity to my own perplexity as to why liberals like Obama and Pelosi are so hell bent on attacking middle class conservative values and destroying American western ideals. Therein lies the reason the book is titled "Demonic."

I have jusr finished "Demonic" and I believe it is a must read for all thinking or conservative minded people. This book is scarey. history does repeat itself and this book shows how the mob mentality takes control and mindlessly opposes that which is rational. She makes an excellent comparison between the French revolution and the American revolution. One was mob driven and the other was rational driven. It seems all the bloody dictators came to power on the promise to "help" the people and ended up helping themselves. Read it! JB

DEMONIC packs more relevant information in a paragraph than most books do in a chapter. It is not a fast read if you are a thinker. More than an eye-opener it is a paradigm-changer which clarifies the culteral landscape of modern America. It is not a conspiracy book nor a viscious attack thesis, Ann Coulter's reputation and rhetoric might mislead readers before opening the pages. But it is a very precise, well-documented analysis of how what many see as a social-political cult changed our modern culteral landscape using mob psychology over decades. Both fascinating and frightening, it explains nearly everything to those of us who are in a constant state of wonder at how we ended up a nation whose citizenry's behavior defies rational thought. I found myself thinking of the "Stockholm Syndrome" frequently in comparing what she wrote to the state of affairs on virtually all issues. Well, written, concise, entertaining to some and destructive to others, and a needed contribution to our political discourse in these amazing times.

The book was a total surprise. Ann started with a Bible text and brought the reader into an understanding of a world beyond our rationale. We live "in" this world, not just "on" this earth. the reminder; we have "powers" who love us and "powers" who HATE us - is a welcome focus. The suggestion; we are just 'passing through time' is incorrect. Those proclaiming great compassion for the "poor and needy" are historically the same ones promoting poverty and discouragement. Obviously, the answer to corrupt Democrats is not corrupt Republicans. Power corrupts and Washington DC has many cathedrals paying homage to a Demonic illusion. Read DEMONIC, tomorrow will become much clearer. We have two cesspools to deal with: Washington DC and Hollywood, CA. As long as we know our enemies and promoters of debasement, we can resist them.

I love this book. I have always wondered why the arguements of the left are so illogical and tend to end in shouting, why they say things that are so contrary, and why they seem to be so full of hate. Ann Coulter answers these and many other questions with amazing insight. If you want to understand the history of the democratic party and what it stands for today, this is the book for you.

Ann contrasts Liberal and Conservative political activism from the French Revolution to present. Her writing is, as always, thoroughly researched with brilliant commentary. I've enjoyed all of Ann's books but I have to say that this one is exceptional in it's contribution to understanding the liberal mind.

I loved this Kindle book. Sometimes Ann gets on my nerves (when she goes on one of her Christian rants) but this book was pure gold. The history is wonderful and to the point. Those who dissed her, obviously did not, or cannot, read her book. Perhaps if American history was properly taught, with some depth and context, with the world as it was, college students could open their mouths and not sound retarded.

The delight in reading Ann Coulter's books is that they are so well researched, and written, that one can't help but be entertained while being informed. She is so insightful in describing the causes of the deterioration of civilization, and presents us with the challenge to speak out and fight for the return of a moral base for society, the essential foundation of our nation. The wonder is how does she get the time to do the research, along with all of the other powerful presentations she offers in the media and on speaking engagements. To call her an Icon would be to dismiss her too easily.