On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the public outburst of bigotry and repression. Amid the deluge of tweets and breaking news stories that turn each day into a political soap opera, it can be difficult to take a step back and see the big picture. To confront the threats we face, we must recognize that the Trump presidency is a symptom, not the malady. Antidemocracy in America is a collective effort to understand how we got to this point and what can be done about it. Assembled by the sociologist Eric Klinenberg as well as the editors of the online magazine Public Books, Caitlin Zaloom and Sharon Marcus, it offers essays from many of the nation’s leading scholars, experts on topics including race, religion, gender, civil liberties, protest, inequality, immigration, climate change, national security, and the role of the media. Antidemocracy in America places our present in international and historical context, considering the worldwide turn toward authoritarianism and its varied precursors. Each essay seeks to inform our understanding of the fragility of American democracy and suggests how to protect it from the buried contradictions that Trump’s victory brought into public view.
Author(s): Eric Klinenberg, Caitlin Zaloom, Sharon Marcus
Series: Public Books Series
Edition: 1
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 289
Tags: United States: Politics And Government: 2017–; Conservatism: United States: History: 21st Century; Trump, Donald, 1946–; Political Culture: United States: 21st Century
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Contents
Title 2
Introduction: The Big Picture
Part I. The Crisis: Where We Are
Resource Extraction
Confronting Manhood After Trump
Notes
Predatory Real Estate
The Misinformation Society
How Did We Get Here?
A Supply- Side Problem
The Facebook Problem
Trump’s FCC
What’s to Be Done?
Notes
Defending Open Cities
The City: A Space with Civic Potentials
Are Today’s Cities Losing Their Role as Civic Ground?
Note
Criminalizing Immigrants
Notes
Trump, Trade, and War
Rule by Misrule
School of Trump
Trump on Twitter: How a Medium Designed for Democracy Became an Authoritarian’s Mouthpiece
World War II and the Roots of Social Media
Authoritarian Individualism
Note
Trump’s Attack on Knowledge
Ignorance as Well as Deceit
Blocking Knowledge the Government Needs
The Authority of Knowledge
A Crisis of Trust
The Challenge
Part II. The Collapse: How We Got Here
The Devastated House of Labor
Notes
Unholy Alliances
Coalthink
Note
Violence and Criminal Justice
How We Got Here
A Turn Backward and a Look Ahead
Note
Women Voters, Left and Right
A Fall 2018 Prelude
Thoughts on Feminism, Trump, and Identity Politics
Notes
The Office of the Presidency
Note
Religion and the Republic
Evangelical Voters
Notes
Gun Culture
Notes
Black Women and the FBI
Notes
Confederate Revisionist History
Note
Trump’s Charisma
Notes
Unequal America
Notes
Part III. The Solutions: What We Can Do
Working-Class Environmentalism
Note
Defending Society
Protest, Violent and Nonviolent
Note
Social Solidarity
Notes
“The Parliament of Bodies”
The Right Type of Citizenship
Notes
Multiracial Cooperation
Notes
List of Contributors
