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Minority rule : the right-wing attack on the will of the people-and the fight to resist it / Ari Berman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024Edition: First editionDescription: 369 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374600211
  • 037460021X
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Contents:
Prologue : fear of a white minority -- Laboratory for oligarchy -- The fury of democracy -- The new nullification -- The death of the autopsy and the birth of the big lie -- The most dangerous branch -- The new American majority -- The institutional coup -- The electoral coup -- The insurrection through other means -- Democracy on the ballot -- New-school election denial meets old-school voter suppression -- The gerrymandering of history -- Epilogue : a new laboratory for democracy.
Summary: "A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power-and the movement to stop them"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction New 305.809 B516 Available 33111011467673
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Voting rights journalist Ari Berman has been detailing threats to our democracy for years, and his new book Minority Rule is a timely and essential read. He expertly shows how Republicans are trying to rig our political system--and shares how we can fight back." --Hillary Clinton on X

A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power -- and the movement to stop them.

The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. But this crisis didn't begin or end with Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of a massive demographic and political shift. Ari Berman charts these efforts with sweeping historical research and incisive on-the-ground reporting, chronicling how a wide range of antidemocratic tactics interact with profound structural inequalities in institutions like the Electoral College, the Senate, and the Supreme Court to threaten the survival of representative government in America.

"The will of the people," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1801, "is the only legitimate foundation of any government." But that foundation is crumbling. Some counter-majoritarian measures were deliberately built into the Constitution, which was designed in part to benefit a small propertied upper class, but they have metastasized to a degree that the Founding Fathers could never have anticipated, undermining the very notion of "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people." Chilling and revelatory, Minority Rule exposes the long history of the conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy that has reached a fever pitch today--while also telling the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-350) and index.

"A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power-and the movement to stop them"-- Provided by publisher.

Prologue : fear of a white minority -- Laboratory for oligarchy -- The fury of democracy -- The new nullification -- The death of the autopsy and the birth of the big lie -- The most dangerous branch -- The new American majority -- The institutional coup -- The electoral coup -- The insurrection through other means -- Democracy on the ballot -- New-school election denial meets old-school voter suppression -- The gerrymandering of history -- Epilogue : a new laboratory for democracy.

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