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The witches are coming, Lindy West

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non fiction

The witches are coming

Lindy West

"We were just a hair's breadth from electing America's first female president to succeed America's first black president. We weren't done, but we were doing it. And then, true to form -- like the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing, 'If I can't have you, no one can' -- white American voters and the electoral college and a few Russian troll farms shoved an incompetent, racist con-man into the White House." West unpacks the complicated, and sometimes tragic, journey and politics of not being a white man in the 21st century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics. At once side-splittingly funny and irresistibly thought-provoking, "The Witches Are Coming" provides all the kindling to burn America's restrictive and outdated social norms to the ground. Lindy West lights the match

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