One nation after Trump a guide for the perplexed, the disillusioned, the desperate, and the not-yet deported
Three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists explain why the Trump presidency poses a threat to the nation and discusses how the citizen activism it has inspired can lead to democratic renewal.
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: when a crisis is an opportunity: the perils of Trumpism and the call to engagement
- Part I. Trump and Trumpism
- Trumpian misconceptions: what Trump's election meant, what it didn't, and why Trumpism doesn't own the future
- When the truth doesn't matter: the crisis of the media and the rise of "alternative facts"
- Bad behavior: the disappearing norms of American politics
- A penchant for authoritarianism: how Trump intimidates opponents, promotes kleptocracy, and challenges the rule of law
- Phony friend of the working class: Trump, "populism," and the new politics of the far right
- Race, immigration, culture, or economics? The complicated motivations of the Trump voter
- Part II. The way forward
- With opportunity and justice for all: building a new economy
- Yearning to breathe free: discovering a new patriotism
- Our little platoons: the urgency of a new civil society
- What "draining the swamp" really looks like: bringing a new democracy to life
- "Show up, dive in, stay at it": building one nation after Trump.
