Award-winning journalist, Max Blumenthal, in the first extended interview about his debut book, “Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party.” The book traces the rise of the radical right in the U.S. and how it used the concept of personal crisis to grow as a movement and eventually capture control of the GOP to transform it from the party of Dwight Eisenhower to the party of Sarah Palin.

Fifty years ago, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower issued a warning against the rise of …