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Barry Mauer began the comic series Deadly Delusions in 2013 in response to the increasingly extreme and dangerous right-wing propaganda he had observed over the past several decades. His aim for the project has been to combine scholarship, maximal rhetorical force, and a punk do-it-yourself aesthetic. Deadly Delusions shifts away from debates about whether the media is biased or if it is fair to both sides. Rather, it asks whether the media is spreading mass delusion and pushing eliminationist policies. ; peer-reviewed

On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. We may never know or understand what was in Mateen's mind, but we can situate his attack within the history of eliminationism in America. Islamist terrorism is just part of a larger phenomenon: right wing eliminationism. But despite centuries of right wing eliminationist words and deeds in the U.S., there is little or no mainstream recognition of the phenomenon. Instead, we are treated to more denial, more distraction, more obfuscation. Until we look this problem squarely in the face, it will continue to metastasize. Unless we deal with right wing eliminationism, we will not transform the losses caused by Mateen's attack on Pulse into lasting positive change. This exhibit is intended for an audience of people sympathetic to the victims who were killed and injured during the Pulse shooting. I do not intend to convince those who feel otherwise; they are probably beyond reach. My hope is that this work will find sympathetic people who have as yet been unable to properly diagnose the sick conditions that created Omar Mateen. If this work has any value, it is in its ability to give such sympathetic people the tools to diagnose the ideological and material conditions that created our current crisis as well as the tools to enact the personal, social, and political "treatment" necessary to ensure no such attacks happen again.

The more educated right wingers are, the more likely they are to reject science when it conflicts with their beliefs. This type of denial is called the "smart idiot" effect and it has deadly consequences.

This comic form essay asks why denial is more prevalent among right wingers in America.

Eliminationist rhetoric in right wing American political discourse is a threat to democracy and to public health. Dangerous beliefs once limited to the fringe are now central to right wing political discourse. Right wing leaders have integrated eliminationist sentiments into a mainstream ideology .

Many right wingers believe they are the only real Americans and are persecuted by progressives, environmentalists, Muslims, atheists, minorities, foreigners, poor people, women, and gays — typically the least powerful people in America. This combination of grandiose and persecutory delusions creates the seeds of hatred, war, slavery and genocide. We are not paranoid to link these delusions to such crimes. We've seen these delusions lead European-Americans to commit war and genocide against Native Americans, to enslave Africans and to wage wars against Vietnamese people, Iraqis, and many others.

Frontmatter --Table of Contents --Preface --1. Connecting Modernities --Part I Modernity as We Know It --2. Technology and the Texture of Modernity --3. Math and Modernity: Critical Reflections --4. Stranded Modernity --5. The (In)Compatibility of Islam with Modernity --6. The Missing Body --Part II Modernity under Fire --7. Criticism of "Colonial Modernity" through Kurdish Decolonial Approaches --8. Conflicting Modernities: Militarization and Islands --9. Project Modernity: From Anticolonialism to Decolonization --Part III In the Shadow of the Pandemic --10. Modernity and Decision-Making for Global Challenges --11. Public Health Confronts Modernity in the Shadow of the Pandemic --12. Human Identity and COVID-19 --Part IV Imagining New Global Frameworks --13. Environmentalism: A Challenge to Modernity --14. The Cognitive Immune System --15. Representative Democracy as Kitsch, and Artificial Intelligence's Promise of Emancipation --16. Subjectivation, Modernity, and Hypermodernity --17. Toward a New Global? --Index