In this second volume of his Consent Factory essays, award-winning author and political satirist C. J. Hopkins continues his irreverent coverage of the mainstream media and political establishment’s reaction to the presidency of Donald Trump and the so-called “new populism” that put him in office. “Hilarious … furious … required reading …” (Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone), the essays in this collection cover the insanity of 2018 and 2019. Russiagate, mass “fascism” hysteria, the new McCarthyism, the war on dissent, the Hitlerization of Jeremy Corbyn, the demonization of the working classes, identity politics, and all the rest of the establishment’s “war on populism.”
About the Author
CJ Hopkins is an American playwright, novelist and political satirist. His plays have been produced and have toured internationally, playing theatres and festivals such as Riverside Studios, 59E59 Theaters, Belvoir St. Theatre, Traverse Theatre, the Du Maurier World Stage Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Adelaide Fringe Festival, and Brighton Festival, and are published by Bloomsbury (Methuen) and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. His playwriting awards include: the 2002 Best of the Fringe Firsts in Edinburgh, Scotsman Fringe Firsts for New Writing in 2002 and 2005, and the 2004 Best of the Adelaide Fringe award. His political satire and commentary is published by Consent Factory, Inc., and is widely republished and translated. His debut novel, Zone 23, is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant.
