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George Lundskow

Making Racism and Misogyny Great Again: The Emptiness and Misplaced Meaning of Angry Young White Men

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History shows us that every demagogical dictator requires an equal and opposite enemy, the Evil Other whose mere existence threatens the demagogue’s people. The leader then calls for the good people to annihilate the Evil Other, and all traces of their alleged influence. In short, we are witnessing the rise of American fascism. What is…

Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God-How Corporate America Invented Christian America. New York: Basic Books, 2015.

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How did conservative evangelical Christianity become the default religion of the US government, despite the legal separation of church and state? Kevin M. Kruse sees this as a Twentieth Century development, a process that started with the Eisenhower administration, continued through several others, and eventually solidified with the Reagan administration. The book offers impressive detail…

White Like Them

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Books Reviewed in this Essay: Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. New York, NY: The New Press, 2016. Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. New York, NY: Viking Press, 2016. J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and…