The Brainwashing of My Dad

How the Rise of the Right-Wing Media Changed a Father and Divided Our Nation - And How We Can Fight Back

By: Jen Senko

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

After her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News, Jen Senko feared he would never be the same again . . .

Frank Senko had always known how to have a good time. But after a job change forced Frank to begin a long car commute every day, his daughter Jen noticed changes in his personality and beliefs. Long hours on the road listening to talk radio commentators like Rush Limbaugh sucked her father into a suspicion-laden worldview dominated by conspiracy theories, fake news, and rants about the "coastal elite" and "libtards" trying to destroy America.

Over the course of a few years, Jen's dad went from a nonpolitical, open-minded Democrat to a radical, angry, and intolerant right-wing devotee who became a stranger to those closest to him. As politics began to take precedence over everything else in her father's life, Jen was mystified. What happened to her dad? Jen began the search for answers, and found them . . . as well as stories from countless other families like her own.

Based on the award-winning documentary, The Brainwashing of My Dad uncovers the alarming right-wing strategy to wield the media as a weapon against our very democracy.

©2021 Jen Senko (P)2022 Tantor

Spoke to me

Her experiences and the experiences of others in the book are similar to my own.

very solid read covering the propaganda problem in America.

Many technical psychological books have been written about what is happening right now. But this book brings it home to the human relationship level ,
I have lost friends and relatives down the rabbit hole of Fox News and hatred. This book describes the process and the cure perfectly.

I was right

Hopefully, they miss Rush the drug trafficker enough that they will join him. You can’t fix stupid

Could not be more spot on.

This book could not be more spot on with my family. I just wish I could convince them to give it a listen and, possibly see that not everything is the truth.

All encompassing and digestible explanation about the far right

It gave so many calls to action and personal anecdotes at the end. The body is well structured historical, sociological, and psychological research