There is no place in this Republican party for such hawkers of hate, such pervay as a

prejudice.

Such fabricators of fear, whether communists, cookups, plan, or birchers.

That was New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller addressing the Republican convention of 1964,

denouncing the extremists that appeared to be taking over his party, only to be drowned

out by booze and shouts by delegates backing that year's nominee, Barry Goldwater.

Rockefeller's all but forgotten speech is the opening scene in journalist David Korn's

new book, American Psychosis, a historical investigation on how the Republican Party

went crazy.

Korn draws a somewhat straight line from that moment when a Goldwater movement rife

with followers of the John Birch Society and other extremist groups took over the GOP

to the rise of Donald Trump more than a half century later, culminating in the events

of January 6th when Magick extremists stormed the US Capitol and threatened the lives of

lawmakers in the sitting vice president.

Korn's book raises the question that hungover the events of 1964, can the Republican Party

be saved, and if it can't, can American democracy be saved?

We'll talk to Korn on this episode of Skull Duggery.

I'm Michael Isgov, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News.

I'm Dan Clydeman, editor in chief of Yahoo News.

And I'm Victoria Bissetti, a senior counsel for states United.

So it's a pretty provocative book by Korn, which has some really fascinating historical

nuggets in it.

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