This book helps us all understand what happened to America in the last part of the 21st century and on into today. Though few if any of us can remember the founding, the last time outright hate was seen in America in bulk was during the Revolutionary War. You may recall from History Class in Third Grade that eventually, those in favor of separation from England outnumbered those who felt the US should keep letting the British sock it to Americans without even letting the Crown know that we were upset with how things were going with the occupation. These colonists were known as loyalists. They felt that everything in America was because of the English. They remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War. Americans in favor of America hated the Loyalists like the hate we see in the streets and on the news today. The Loyalists did not want to be known as Patriots. Instead, they preferred being the Tories, the Royalists, or the King's Men at the time. They were deeply opposed by the other group pf pro-America colonists who took the name "The Patriots." These pro-Americans supported the revolution and called the others "persons inimical to the liberties of America". Nobody can deny that hate in America is on the rise. Statisticians show that there are nearly a thousand known hate groups in the United States. The number increases each year and is up 4 percent in just this past year, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), if you can believe what they preach. The SPLC says that the leading hate mongers today are white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. Most Americans do not see this but in our own backyards we do recognize the evidence that hateful acts have proliferated since Donald Trump began his presidency and in fact, it happened even before the inauguration. There is often irony in facts. As people who never paid attention to hate and bigotry began to notice it everywhere, especially in the fake news media, the many expressions of overt bigotry they witnessed made many regular Americans own shall we say, "more subtle biases," seem benign by comparison. In other words so many manifestations of hate were in the forefront that those not active in the hate displays were picking up biases from the arguments of the warring sides but since they were not active, they did not recognize their own bigotry and biases. Most Americans blame the other side. Ironically, they are right, but the fault today lies on the hateful left, and the ugly media-CNN, MSNBC, & the one-time great New York Times. Said differently, there was a liberal study in which the participants perceived more tolerance on their own parts for prejudice after the election than before. The truth is always absent from the rantings of the hate mongers. It helps to read the comments section in articles that attempt to teach about the new acceptable norms as the authors are often as bigoted as the bigots which they discuss. Few articles ever represent reality as the media is controlled by the leftists, and their hate filled agendas. Here is a comment from a Latino who according to leftists should not like Trump, yet she does: As a Trump supporting Latino I have been called every name in the book by so-called tolerant, progressive liberals and they have even wished I would die. I have NEVER experienced such outright bigotry as I have by liberals. Hate is contagious when we find the thoughts of others to be outrageous and harmful. We work to demonstrate the problems and the solutions in this book and I bet once you pick this book up, you will not be able to set it down. God bless America Down with Hate