For the rightwing protagonists of “When the Clock Broke,” democracy – any attempt to level what they insisted were natural hierarchies of race, gender, wealth – was the enemy. To the hard Right, liberal democracy wasn’t the “end of history,” it was the end “real America.”
Weekend Reading: I wrote about the pre-history of Trump’s rise, the nature of Trumpism, and the radical politics of white despair – based on John Ganz’s masterful new book “When the Clock Broke”
The Origins of Trumpism and the Birth of the Present.
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