A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250 years to build?and
they'll start by canceling our shared history ideals and culture. Traditional areas of civic
agreement are vanishing. We can't agree on what makes America special. We can't even agree that
America is special. We're coming to the point that we can't even agree what the word America
itself means. ?Disintegrationists? say we're stronger together but their assault on America's
history philosophy and culture will only tear us apart. Who are the disintegrationists? From
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States to the New York Times' 1619 project many
modern analyses view American history through the lens of competing oppressions a racist and
corrupt experiment from the very beginning. They see American philosophy as a lie ? beautiful
words pasted over a thoroughly rotted system. They see America's culture of rights as a façade
that merely reinforces traditional hierarchies of power instead of being the only culture that
guarantees freedom for individuals. Disintegrationist attacks on the values that built our
nation are insidious because they replace each foundational belief from the rights to free
speech and self-defense to the importance of marriage and faith communities with nothing more
than an increased reliance on the government. This twisted disintegrationist vision replaces
the traditional ?unionist? understanding that all Americans are united in a shared striving
toward the perfection of universal ideals. How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps shows
that to be a cohesive nation we have to uphold foundational truths about ourselves our history
and reality itself?to be unionists instead of disintegrationists. Shapiro offers a vital
warning that if we don't recover these shared truths our future?our union?as a great country
is threatened with destruction.
