TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nichols,John
TI  - The fight for the soul of the Democratic Party: the enduring legacy of Henry Wallace's antifascist, antiracist politics 
SN  - 1788737407
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Verso
KW  - Wallace, Henry A.
KW  - Democratic Party (U.S.)
KW  - History
KW  - Fascism
KW  - United States
KW  - Racism
KW  - Social change
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Seventy-five years ago, Henry Wallace, then the sitting Vice President of the United States, mounted a campaign to warn about the persisting "Danger of American Fascism." As fighting in the European and Japanese theaters drew to a close, Wallace warned that the country may win the war and lose the piece; that the fascist threat that the U.S. was battling abroad had a terrifying domestic variant, growing rapidly in power: wealthy corporatists and their allies in the media. Wallace warned that if the New Deal project was not renewed and expanded in the post-war era, American fascists would use fear mongering, xenophonbia, and racism to regain the economic and political power that they lost. He championed an alternative, progressive vision of a post-war world-an alternative to triumphalist "American Century" vision then rising--in which the United States rejected colonialism and imperialism. Wallace's political vision - as well as his standing in the Democratic Party - were quickly sidelined. In the decades to come, other progressive forces would mount similar campaigns: George McGovern and Jesse Jackson more prominently. As John Nichols chronicles in this book, they ultimately failed - a warning to would-be reformers today - but their successive efforts provide us with insights into the nature of the Democratic Party, and a strategic script for the likes of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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