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Book Review: A Nefarious Plot By: Nate Madden \| February 18, 2016 It’s a classic, almost clichéd scene from any action movie: the bad guy pauses right before the culmination of a cataclysmic event only to boast to the hero about his ingeniously evil plot to destroy and/or dominate the world. Now, imagine the same thing for America. No, not simply in America. Imagine the same sort of maniacal soliloquy for America, uttered by the surrogates of one who hates this country more than any jihadist or rabid anti-capitalist can even pretend to: the devil himself. Such is the basis of Steve Deace’s “A Nefarious Plot,” from Post Hill Press. Equal parts “The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire,” “The Screwtape Letters,” and “Goldfinger,” Deace’s book delivers an almost-post-American autopsy of our shining city on a hill. From the welfare state to the secularization of the public square, Deace outlines a decades-long plot to dissolve the safeguards of the American Republic, security, sovereignty and society, so insidious that only Lucifer himself could have signed off on it. Even more chilling is that the game has been afoot under our noses all this time, and Deace has the stats to prove it. Deace’s analysis--through his demonic surrogate, Lord Nefarious--cuts right to the heart of every major crisis currently faced by the United States, and cleverly outlines them as such: decadence, debt, dunces, decay, despair, death and finally, defeat. As Nefarious describes his seven-point operation to destroy the nation he so especially despises, one sees the horrific truth of the march of “social progress” that began in the mid-twentieth century. Central to this descent into madness and pestilence was the destruction and desecration of a single institution, the family: f the family unit were weakened, even believers would eventually crumble. Parents would fail to pass on their virtues and values to their offspring, or their offspring would rebel against the hypocrisy and/or legalism they witnessed in the home altogether. us, the ground would shrink beneath your feet with each passing generation. If the believers who possess the necessary spiritual foundation weren’t going to hold the line, there’s no way the unbelievers would be able to. From there, the sails only continued to tatter amidst the storm of the sexual revolution and the lies of “ The Great Society,” according to the infernal mastermind: We had to have the welfare state in place before we introduced the new moral order, because if there wasn’t a welfare state already in place people would still have to pay the consequences for their immoral actions themselves...Poor and middle class folks can’t afford recreational sex with multiple partners well into their thirties, mistresses on the side, and baby daddies on their own. They need marriage not just for love, but that commitment to also stabilize them financially...The welfare state became the condom of the sexual revolution. It implied “protection” from the consequences of opening Pandora’s box, without considering the unintended consequences. Following this unholy revelation, Nefarious must only describe the after-effects of Pandora’s Box, and does so with a few truckloads of abusive, yet well-deserved snark and rapier wit. Given, a few times in the text, even the most seasoned readers will be taken aback by Deace’s prose. In contrast to Lewis’ measured and thoughtful “ Screwtape,” Deace’s Nefarious comes off as a seasoned special operator in Hell’s ranks, dispatched for the daunting task of sabotaging a nation, rather than the corruption of a single human soul. Pearls will be clutched while audible gasps permeate living rooms and subway cars as the reader stands incredulous at some of the author's assertions...until those same readers release the pearls and remind themselves that Deace is writing from the perspective of a demon, which he does incredibly well. Most sobering about Nefarious’ story is its ending. This is not a work of socio-political non-fiction with a cheerful and inspiring “what you can do” section. There is no winsome, hopeful step forward; there is only ‘Judgement,’ the title of the closing chapter. If one wishes to find optimism in the text, they must trace a trail of rotten breadcrumbs back to the state of things before the forces of corruption took such a taloned-grip on American life. Rightfully so, for to comprehend the gravity of the sins and errors outlined by Lucifer’s hatchet man in the previous chapters—most brought on by the vice of the American people themselves—the reader must end the story by grappling with the fact that judgment will come regardless of his or her preparation for it. Such is the desired end of such “A Nefarious Plot.” - See more at: conservativereview.com