INTRODUCTION
1. On the issue of inequality, see Michael Yates, The Great Inequality (New York: Routledge, 2016).
2. Richard Wike, Bruce Stokes, Jacob Poushter and Jane L. Fetterolf, “U.S. Image Suffers as Publics Around World Question Trump’s Leadership,” Pew Research Center (June 26, 2017). Accessed February 12, 2018: www.pewglobal.org/2017/06/26/u-s-image-suffers-as-publics-around-world-question-trumps-leadership/
3. Cited in Thomas B. Edsall, “The Self-destruction of American Democracy,” New York Times (November 30, 2017). Accessed February 12, 2018: www.ny-times.com/2017/11/30/opinion/trump-putin-destruction-democracy.html
4. For instance, see Andrew Spannaus, “Poverty Fuels European Extremism,” CounterPunch (June 1, 2017). Accessed February 12, 2018: www.counter-punch.org/2017/06/01/poverty-fuels-european-extremism/
5. Gwynn Guilford, “Harvard research suggests that an entire global generation has lost faith in democracy,” Quartz Media (November 30, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: qz.com/848031/harvard-research-suggests-that-an-entire-global-generation-has-lost-faith-in-democracy/
6. Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk, “The Democratic Disconnect,” Journal of Democracy 27:3 (July 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.journalofdemocracy.org/sites/default/files/Foa%26Mounk-27-3.pdf
7. Masha Gessen, “The Autocrat’s Language,” The New York Review of Books (May 13, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/05/13/the-autocrats-language/
8. Editorial Board, “Donald Trump Is a Unique Threat to American Democracy,” Washington Post (July 22, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-a-unique-threat-to-american-democracy/2016/07/22/a6d823cc-4f4f-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html
9. Terray Sylvester, “Suspect in fatal Portland attack yells about ‘free speech’ at hearing,” Reuters (May 30, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-muslims-portland-idUSKBN18Q11F
10. On the history of right-wing populism, see David Neiwert, ALT-America: The Rise of the Racial Right in the Age of Trump (London: Verso, 2017) and Steve Fraser, The Limousine Liberal (New York: Basic Books, 2016).
11. Masha Gessen, “Trump’s Incompetence Won’t Save Our Democracy,” New York Times (June 2, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/opinion/sunday/trumps-incompetence-wont-save-our-democracy.html
12. Ibid.
13. Brad Evans and David Theo Goldberg, “Histories of Violence: Violence to Thought,” Los Angeles Review of Books (July 10, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: lareviewofbooks.org/article/histories-of-violence-violence-to-thought/#!
14. See Henry A. Giroux, The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America’s Disimagination Machine (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2014).
15. Cited in Ismail Khalidi, Naomi Wallace, “Trump-ocalypse Now?,” American Theater (October 24, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.americantheatre.org/2017/10/24/trump-ocalypse-now/
16. Brad Evans, “A World Without Books Is A World Foreclosed,” The Reading List (June 1, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.thereadinglists.com/brad-evans-reading-list/
17. Albert Camus, The Plague (New York: Vintage, 1991), p. 308.
18. Dan Balz and Scott Clement, “Poll: Trump’s Performance Lags Behind Even Tepid Public Expectations,” Washington Post (November 5, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-trumps-performance-lags-behind-even-tepid-public-expectations/2017/11/04/35d2a912-bf4d-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html?utm_term=.ced811484d6d
19. Lucy P. Marcus, “Truth, Lies and Trust in the Age of Brexit and Trump,” The Guardian (September 16, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/16/truth-lies-and-trust-in-the-age-of-brexit-and-trump
20. Shaun King, “Hillary Clinton Has Been Caught Lying for a Year in Her Email Scandal,” New York Daily News (May 26, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/king-clinton-caught-lying-year-email-scandal-article-1.2651043
21. Matthew Yglesias, “The Bullshitter-in-Chief,” Vox (May 30, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/30/15631710/trump-bullshit
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. David Leonhardt, “Lies vs. B.S.” New York Times (May 31, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/opinion/lies-vsbs.html?_r=0
25. See, for instance, the now classic Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Penguin Books, 1985, 2005); On the question of the relationship between capitalism, democracy and the media see, Robert W. McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times (New York: The New Press, 2015).
26. Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton, Mortality and morbidity in the 21st century (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/casedeaton_sp17_finaldraft.pdf
27. Roger Berkowitz, “Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting ‘The Origins of Totalitarianism,’” Los Angeles Review of Books (March 18, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: lareviewofbooks.org/article/arendt-matters-revisiting-origins-totalitarianism/
28. S.M. “Crackdown: A Plan to Put More Americans in Prison,” The Economist (May 16, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2017/05/crackdown
29. See, for instance, a number of insightful articles on police violence against people of color in Maya Schenwar, Joe Macare, and Alana Yu-lan Price, eds., Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? (Chicago: Haymarket, 2016).
30. Peter Baker and David E. Sanger, “Trump Says Tillerson Is ‘Wasting His Time’ on North Korea,” New York Times (October 1, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/10/01/us/politics/trump-tillerson-north-korea.html
31. David Smith and Lauren Gambino. “Booked! Trump, staffers who cried Wolff and a week of fire and fury,” The Guardian (January 7, 2018). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/07/michael-wolff-trump-book-fire-fury-reaction. See also, Robert Reich, “Seriously, How Dumb Is Trump,” Huffington Post (January 7, 2018). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/seriously-how-dumb-is-trump_us_5a525a1ee4b003133ec8cb66
32. Richard J. Evans, “A Warning from History,” The Nation (February 28, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.thenation.com/article/the-ways-to-destroy-democracy/
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. Cited in Marian Wright Edelman, “Why Are Children Less Valuable than Guns in America? It Is Time to Protect Children,” Children’s Defense Fund (December 8, 2015). Accessed February 16, 2018: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/marian-wright-edelman/why-are-children-lessval_b_8842926.html
36. Editorial Board, “511 Days. 555 Mass Shootings. Zero Action From Congress,” New York Times, November 6, 2017. Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/02/opinion/editorials/mass-shootings-congress.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-abc-region®ion=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region; Sharon LaFranier, Sarah Cohen and Richard A. Oppel Jr., “How Often Do Mass Shootings Occur? On Average, Every Day, Records Show,” New York Times (December 2, 2015). Accessed October 2, 2016: Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/us/how-often-do-mass-shootings-occur-on-average-every-day-records-show.html
37. Kate Murphy and Jordan Rubio, “At Least 28,000 Children and Teens Were Killed by Guns over an 11-Year-Period,” News21 (August 16, 2014). Accessed February 13, 2018: gunwars.news21.com/2014/at-least-28000-children-and-teens-were-killed-by-guns-over-an-11-year-period/
38. Gary Younge, “America’s Deserving and Undeserving Dead Children,” TomDispatch (November 1, 2001). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.tomdispatch.com/post/176201/tomgram%3A_gary_younge,_america’s_deserving_and_undeserving_dead_children/
39. Natasja Sheriff, “UN Expert Slams US as Only Nation to Imprison Kids for Life without Parole,” Al Jazeera America (March 9, 2015). Accessed February 13, 2018: america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/9/un-expert-slams-us-as-only-nation-to-sentence-kids-to-life-without-parole.html
40. See Jessica Feirman with Naomi Goldstein, Emily Haney-Caron, and Jaymes Fairfax Columbo, Debtors’ Prison for Kids? The High Costs of Fines and Fees in the Juvenile Justice System (Juvenile Law Center, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: debtorsprison.jlc.org/#!/map
41. John W. Whitehead, “Another Brick in the Wall: Children of the American Police State,” CounterPunch (August 25, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/25/another-brick-in-the-wall-children-of-the-american-police-state/
42. Juan González and Amy Goodman, “On Tyranny: Yale Historian Timothy Snyder on How the U.S. Can Avoid Sliding into Authoritarianism,” Democracy Now! (May 30, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2017/5/30/on_tyranny_yale_historian_timothy_snyder?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=b-9c7f250d4-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-b9c7f250d4-190213053
43. Miriam Jordan, “Trump Administration Says that Nearly 200,000 Salvadorans Must Leave,” New York Times (January 8, 2018). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/us/salvadorans-tps-end.html?emc=edit_na_20180108&nl=breaking-news&nlid=15581699&ref=cta&_r=0
44. Alex Honneth, Pathologies of Reason (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), p. 188.
45. Deepti Hajela and Michael Tarm, “Trump Travel Ban Sparks Protests, Airport Chaos,” Hamilton Spectator (January 30, 2017), p. A6.
46. Alexander Mallin, M.L. Neste, “Controversial Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka leaves White House post,” ABC NEWS (August 26, 2017). Accessed August 28, 2017: Accessed February 13, 2018: abcnews.go.com/Politics/controversial-trump-adviser-sebastian-gorka-leaves-white-house/story?id=49427323
47. Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The First White President,” The Atlantic (October 2017) Accessed February 13, 2018: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/
48. Ibid.
49. Cornel West, “Ta-Nehisi Coates Is the Neoliberal Face of the Black Freedom Struggle,” The Guardian (December 17, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/17/ta-nehisi-coates-neoliberal-black-struggle-cornel-west
50. Ibid.
51. This issue has been brilliantly explored by Zygmunt Bauman in a number of books. See especially Wasted Lives (London: Polity Press, 2004) and Identity: Conversations with Benedetto Vecchi (London: Polity Press, 2004).
52. Marie Luise Knott, Unlearning with Hannah Arendt, trans. David Dollenmayer (New York: Other Press, 2011), p.17.
53. Editorial, “Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban Is Cowardly and Dangerous,” New York Times (January 28, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/opinion/donald-trumps-muslim-ban-is-cowardly-and-dangerous.html
54. Ibid.
55. Meara Sharma interviews Claudia Rankine, “Blackness as the Second Person,” Guernica (November 17, 2014). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.guernicamag.com/interviews/blackness-as-the-second-person/
56. Michael M. Grynbaum, “Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut,’” New York Times (January 26, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.html?_r=0
57. Naomi Klein, “Sandy’s Devastation Opens Space for Action on Climate Change and Progressive Reform,” Democracy Now! (November 15, 2012). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2012/11/15/naomi_klein_sandys_devastation_opens_space
58. Cited in Frederick Douglass, “West India Emancipation” speech at Canandaigua, New York on August 3, 1857. Accessed February 13, 2018: www.blackpast.org/1857-frederick-douglass-if-there-no-struggle-there-no-progress#sthash.8Eoaxpmo.dpuf
CHAPTER ONE
1. Byung-Chul Han, In the Swarm: Digital Prospects, tr. Erik Butler (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017), p. 15.
2. Les Leopold, “Why America has more prisoners than any police state,” AlterNet (March 7, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.rawstory.com/2016/03/why-america-has-more-prisoners-than-any-police-state/
3. Robert Kuttner, “George Orwell and the Power of a Well-Placed Lie,” Bill Moyers and Company (January 25, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: billmoyers.com/story/orwell-hitler-trump/
4. Hannah Arendt, “Hannah Arendt: From an Interview with Roger Errera,” New York Review of Books (October 26, 1978). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nybooks.com/articles/1978/10/26/hannah-arendt-from-an-interview/
5. Aaron Blake, “Kellyanne Conway Says Donald Trump’s Team Has ‘Alternative Facts.’ Which Pretty Much Says It All,” Washington Post (January 22, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/22/kellyanne-conway-says-donald-trumps-team-has-alternate-facts-which-pretty-much-says-it-all/?utm_term=.69ac680b5854
6. Bill Moyers, “Trump’s Queen of Bull Hits a Bump in the Road,” Moyers & Company (February 7, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: billmoyers.com/story/trumps-queen-of-bull-hits-a-bump-in-the-road/
7. Adam Gopnik, “Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Trump’s America,” The New Yorker (January 27, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/orwells-1984-and-trumps-america
8. Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning (New York: Penguin, 1988), p. 21.
9. Masha Gessen, “Bring Back Hypocrisy! The American President and the American Way of Lying,” New York Times Sunday Review (February 19, 2017), p. SR6.
10. Evans and Goldberg, “Histories of Violence.”
11. Josh Dawsey, Isaac Arnsdorf, Nahal Toosi and Michael Crowley, “White House Nixed Holocaust Statement Naming Jews,” Politico (February 3, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/41742-white-house-nixed-holocaust-statement-naming-jews
12. Kali Holloway, “Time Is Already Running Out on Our Democracy, Scholar Says,” AlterNet (February 13, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.alternet.org/election-2016/time-already-running-out-our-democracy-says-expert
13. Adam Gopnik, “Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Trump’s America,” The New Yorker (January 27, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/orwells-1984-and-trumps-america
14. This term comes from Erin Ramlo in a final paper in my class titled, “Avoiding the Void: Mapping Addiction and Neoliberal Subjectivity,” May 2016.
15. See, for example, Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (New York: Harper, 2018).
16. John Wight, “Muslim Ban, White Supremacy and Fascism in Our Time,” CounterPunch (January 31, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/31/muslim-bans-white-supremacy-and-fascism-in-our-time/
17. See, for instance, Henry A. Giroux, Hearts of Darkness (New York: Routledge, 2010); Henry A. Giroux, America’s Addiction to Terrorism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2016).
18. This theme is taken up powerfully by a number of theorists. See C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000); Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man (New York: Norton, 1974); Zygmunt Bauman, In Search of Politics (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999); and Henry A. Giroux, Public Spaces, Private Lives (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001).
19. Susan Dunn, “Trump’s ‘America First’ Has Ugly Echoes from U.S. History,” CNN.Com (April 28, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.cnn.com/2016/04/27/opinions/trump-america-first-ugly-echoes-dunn/
20. Ibid.
21. Matt Ferner, “More Bomb Threats Close Jewish Community Centers Across The Nation,” The Huffington Post (February 20, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bomb-threats-jewish-community-centers_us_58ab56a5e4b0f077b3ecfec4
22. Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee, “Fact-checking President Trump’s Address to Congress,” Washington Post (February 28, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/02/28/fact-checking-president-trumps-address-to-congress/?utm_term=.f1cb25a601cb
23. Ibid., Adam Gopnik, “Orwell’s ‘1984’ and Trump’s America.”
23. Frank Bruni, “Donald Trump Will Numb You,” New York Times Sunday Review (February 19, 2017), p. SR3.
25. Charles J. Sykes, “Why Nobody Cares the President Is Lying,” New York Times (February 4, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/opinion/sunday/why-nobody-cares-the-president-is-lying.html
26. Glenn Kessler, “In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims,” Washington Post (December 29, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/12/29/in-a-30-minute-interview-president-trump-made-24-falseor-misleading-claims/?utm_term=.c83cf4f97f37
27. Ned Resnikoff, “Trump’s lies have a purpose. They are an assault on democracy.” Think Progress (November 27, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: thinkprogress.org/when-everything-is-a-lie-power-is-the-only-truth-1e641751d150#.ux57mwjsz
28. Masha Gessen, “The Most Frightening Aspect of Trump’s Tax Triumph,” The New Yorker (December 21, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-most-frightening-aspect-of-trumps-tax-triumph
29. Peter Baker and Michael Tackett, “Trump Says His ‘Nuclear Button’ Is ‘Much Bigger’ Than North Korea’s,” New York Times (January 2, 2018). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/us/politics/trump-tweet-north-korea.html?_r=0
30. See, for instance, Jeremy Scahill’ s searing exposé of Mike Pence’s religious fundamentalism and the religious fanatics that he associates with, all of whom now have access to the White House. Jeremy Scahill, “Mike Pence Will Be the Most Powerful Christian Supremacist in U.S. History,” The Intercept (November 15, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: theintercept.com/2016/11/15/mike-pence-will-be-the-most-powerful-christian-supremacist-in-us-history/
31. This issue has been brilliantly explored by Zygmunt Bauman in a number of books. See, especially, Wasted Lives (London: Polity Press, 2004) and Identity: Conversations with Benedetto Vecchi (London: Polity Press, 2004).
32. Marie Louise Knott, Unlearning With Hannah Arendt, trans. David Dollenmayer (New York: Other Press, 2011), p.17.
33. Juliet Eilperin, “Trump signs executive order to expand drilling off America’s coasts: ‘We’re opening it up,’” Washington Post (April 28, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/28/trump-signs-executive-order-to-expand-offshore-drilling-and-analyze-marine-sanctuaries-oil-and-gas-potential/?utm_term=.77e549217a21
34. Matthew Rosenberg, “New C.I.A. Deputy Director, Gina Haspel, Had Leading Role in Torture,” New York Times (February 2, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/politics/cia-deputy-director-gina-haspel-torture-thailand.html
35. Robert L. Borosage, “Republicans in Congress Think You’re an Idiot: The GOP tax bill should be toxic to everyone who is not ultra-rich,” The Nation (November 17, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.thenation.com/article/republicans-in-congress-think-youre-an-idiot/
36. Michael M. Grynbaum, “Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut,’” New York Times (January 26, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.html?_r=0
37. Ibid.
38. Joe Macare, “Real Journalism Is the Enemy of Injustice and Deceit” (February 21, 2017). Sent through personal correspondence.
39. Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Matthew Rosenberg, “With False Claims, Trump Attacks Media on Turnout and Intelligence Rift,” New York Times (January 21, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/politics/trump-white-house-briefing-inaugurationcrowd-size.html?_r=0
40. Michael M. Grynbaum, “Trump Calls the News Media the ‘Enemy of the American People,” New York Times (February 17, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/business/trump-calls-the-news-media-the-enemy-of-the-people.html?_r=0
41. Roger Cohen, “The Unmaking of Europe,” New York Times (February 24, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/opinion/the-unmaking-of-europe.html
42. Garance Burke, “AP Exclusive: DHS Weighed Nat Guard for Immigration Roundups” AP News (February 18, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: apnews.com/5508111d59554a33be8001bdac4ef830?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
43. Greg Elmer and Paula Todd, “Don’t Be a Loser: Or How Trump Turned the Republican Primaries into an Episode of The Apprentice,” Television and News Media 17(7), p. 660.
44. Frank Rich, “Trump’s Speech Gave Us America the Ugly. Don’t Let It Become Prophesy,” Reader Supported News (January 22, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/41524-focus-trumps-speech-gave-us-america-the-ugly-dont-let-it-become-prophesy
45. Rebecca Gordon, “Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, No ‘New Normal,’” TomDispatch.com (November 20, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176212/. Examples of this media response are discussed also in Neal Gabler, “And So It Begins: Normalizing the Election,” Moyers & Company (November 23, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: billmoyers.com/story/media-normalizing-election/
46. See Jennifer Brett, “Oprah Panned for Saying She Feels Hope after Trump Election,” AJC.com (November 12, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: buzz.blog.ajc.com/2016/11/12/oprah-trump/
47. Nicholas Kristof, “Gritting Our Teeth and Giving President Trump a Chance,” New York Times (November 9, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/opinion/gritting-our-teeth-and-giving-president-trump-a-chance.html?_r=1
48. Cited by Irish Central Staff, “Bill Gates Says Trump Could Lead America like JFK,” IrishCentral.com (January 6, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.irishcentral.com/news/politics/bill-gates-says-trump-could-lead-america-like-jfk
49. As Robert Reich points out, while Trump’s lies become more obvious, there is still a failure on the part of the established media to cut through a mountain of apologetic language when reporting on Trump and his policies. See, Robert Reich, “Straight Talk about Trump,” RobertReich.org (January 12, 2018). Accessed February 13, 2018: robertreich.org/post/169632080345
50. Jeremy B. White, “A third of Americans think the media is the ‘enemy of the people’ following Trump’s repeated ‘fake news’ attacks,” The Independent (December 4, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/americans-media-poll-trusttrump-fake-news-attacks-a8091991.html
51. Michelle Goldberg, “Everyone in Trumpworld Knows He’s an Idiot,” New York Times (January 4, 2018). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/opinion/fire-fury-wolff-trump-book.html
52. Charles Blow, “Donald Trump, This Is Not Normal,” New York Times (December 19, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/opinion/donald-trump-this-is-not-normal.html?_r=0
53. Bill Trott, “Bannon Role in Trump Administration Sets Off Critical Firestorm,” Reuters Business News (November 15, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-bannon-profile-idUSKB-N13A2R1?mod=related&channelName=politicsNews
54. Discussion of Arendt can be found in: Bill Dixon, “Totalitarianism and the Sand Storm,” Hannah Arendt Center (February 3, 2014), accessed February 13, 2018: hac.bard.edu/news/?p=12466; Marie Luise Knott, Unlearning with Hannah Arendt, trans. by David Dollenmayer (New York: Other Press 2011), p.17. For primary sources on this topic, see: Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001); Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008); Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (New York: Vintage Books, 2004).
55. For a particularly excellent abridged analysis of fascism by Paxton, see Robert O. Paxton, “The Five Stages of Fascism,” The Journal of Modern History 70:1 (March 1998), pp. 1–123.
56. Robert O. Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism, p. 218.
57. Ibid., pp. 41–42.
58. David Neiwert, ALT-America: The Rise of the Racial Right in the Age of Trump (London: Verso, 2017), pp. 355–356.
59. Juan González and Amy Goodman, “On Tyranny: Yale Historian Timothy Snyder on How the U.S. Can Avoid Sliding into Authoritarianism,” Democracy Now! (May 30, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2017/5/30/on_tyranny_yale_historian_timothy_snyder
60. Ibid., Frank Rich, “Trump’s Speech Gave Us America the Ugly. Don’t Let It Become Prophesy.”
61. Will Oremus, “How Fox News Described Trump’s Speech: ‘Muscular,’ ‘Masterful,’ ‘Completely Nonpartisan,’” Slate (January 20, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/01/20/how_fox_news_described_trump_s_inaugural_address_muscular_masterful_completely.html
62. Cited in ‘“It Might Not Be Good for America, But It’s Good for Us’: How the Media Got Rich on Trump’s Rise,” Democracy Now! (November 9, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2016/11/9/it_might_not_be_good_for
63. Jesse Druckerjan, “Kushner’s Financial Ties to Israel Deepen Even With Mideast Diplomatic Role,” New York Times (January 7, 2018). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/business/jared-kushner-israel.html
64. Roger Cohen, “The Banal Belligerence of Donald Trump,” New York Times (January 24, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/opinion/the-banal-belligerence-of-donald-trump.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&_r=1
65. Todd Gitlin, “Welcome to the Vortex,” Open Democracy (January 7, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/07/welcome-vortex
66. Ted Johnson, “NPR Explains Why It Doesn’t Label Some Donald Trump Statements ‘Lies,’” Variety (January 25, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: variety.com/2017/biz/news/npr-donald-trump-lies-1201969581/
67. Amy Goodman, “Is the President a “Serial Fabricator”? Fired FBI Director Comey Says Trump Repeatedly Lies,” Democracy Now! (June 9, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2017/6/9/is_the_president_a_serial_fabricator
68. James Traub, “The United States of America is Decadent and Depraved,” Foreign Policy (December 19, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/19/the-united-states-of-america-is-decadent-and-depraved/
69. Charles J. Sykes, “Why Nobody Cares the President Is Lying,” New York Times Sunday Review (February 4, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/opinion/sunday/why-nobody-cares-the-president-is-lying.html
70. David Leonhardt and Stuart A. Thompson, “Trump’s Lies,” New York Times (June 23, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html?_r=0. As Sonam Sheth points out, the New York Times printed a full page in the opinion section of the paper to reference “nearly every lie President Donald Trump had publicly told since taking office just over five months ago. The list includes contradictions by Trump on a slew of topics, like the Iraq War, NATO, the administration’s travel ban, the crowd size at Trump’s inauguration, and the ongoing controversy over Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign’s possible role in it. Trump has contradicted himself on a regular basis and said many misleading statements since taking office and during the presidential campaign.” Sonam Sheth, “The New York Times used a full page to print ‘Trump’s lies’ since taking office,” SFGate (June 25, 2017) Accessed February 13, 2018: www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/The-New-York-Times-used-a-full-page-to-print-all-11245918.php. See also, Bill Moyer’s insightful comments on the Times piece and the political significance of Trump’s endless lying. Bill Moyers, “All of Donald Trump’s Lies,” Moyers & Company (June 26, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: billmoyers.com/story/donald-trumps-lies/
71. Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burnsnov, “Why Trump Stands by Roy Moore, Even as It Fractures His Party,” New York Times (November 25, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/us/politics/trump-roy-moore-mcconnell-alabama-senate.html?_r=1
72. Kelefa Sanneh, “Secret Admirers: The Conservative Intellectuals Smitten with Trump,” The New Yorker (January 9, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/09/intellectuals-for-trump
73. For two excellent sources on the alt-right, see David Neiwert, ALT-America: The Rise of the Racial Right in the Age of Trump (London: Verso, 2017) and Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (New York: Viking, 2017).
74. Sanneh, “Secret Admirers.”
75. Neal Gabler, “And So It Begins: Normalizing the Election,” Moyers & Company (November 23, 2016). Accessed February 13, 2018: billmoyers. com/story/media-normalizing-election/
76. Frank Rich, “After Trump,” New York Magazine (November 13, 2017). Accessed February 13, 2018: nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/frank-rich-trumpism-after-trump.html
77. George Yancy, personal correspondence with the author.
78. See, for instance, “A Handbook For Resistance” in the January 2017 issue of In These Times; the December 5, 2016 issue of The Nation on “How to Fight Back”; Anthony DiMaggio, “The Anti-Trump Uprising: Forging a Path Forward in Uncertain Times,” CounterPunch (December 15, 2016), accessed February 13, 2018: www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/15/the-anti-trump-uprising-forging-a-path-forward-in-uncertain-times/; Robin D.G. Kelley, “After Trump,” Boston Review (November 15, 2016), accessed February 13, 2018: bostonreview.net/forum/after-trump/robin-d-g-kelleytrump-says-go-back-we-say-fight-back; and a resistance manual launched by the Movement for Black Lives, accessed February 13, 2018: www.resistancemanual.org/Resistance_Manual_Home
CHAPTER TWO
1. See Bill Dixon’s commentary on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy, “Totalitarianism and the Sand Storm,” Hannah Arendt Center (February 3, 2014). Accessed February 13, 2018: hac.bard.edu/news/?p=12466
2. Abby Martin, “Chris Hedges on Trump, Fascism and the Christian Right,” Telesur (March 1, 2017), accessed February 16, 2018: www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Chris-Hedges-on-Trump-Fascism-and-the-Christian-Right-20170301-0002.html; Robert Reich, “Trump: The American Fascist,” Moyers & Company (March 11, 2016), accessed February 16, 2018: www.billmoyers.com/story/trump-the-american-fascist/; Cornel West, “Donald Trump Will Unleash ‘Neofascism’ in US,” Telesur (December 1, 2016), accessed February 16, 2018: www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Cornel-West-Donald-Trump-Will-Unleash-Neofascism-in-US-20161201-0033.html; Drucilla Cornell & Stephen D. Seely, “Seven Theses on Trump,” Critical Legal Thinking (November 28, 2016), accessed February 16, 2018: www.criticallegalthinking.com/2016/11/28/seven-theses-trump/; Peter Dreier, “American Fascist,” CommonDreams (January 20, 2017), accessed February 16, 2018: www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/20/american-fascist; the best left analysis I have read comes from John Bellamy Foster, “Neofascism in the White House,” Monthly Review (April 1, 2017), accessed February 16, 2018: www.monthlyreview.org/2017/04/01/neofascism-in-the-white-house/
3. See for instance the most notable of these comments by Robert Kagan, “This Is How Fascism Comes to America,” Washington Post (May 18, 2016). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/2016/05/17/c4e32c58-1c47-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html?utm_term=.ab4f0b439dab.
4. Sarah K. Burris, “A Yale Historian Explains to Maher How Trump Resembles 1930s Fascists—and Makes the Russia Connection,” Raw Story (March 24, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.rawstory.com/2017/03/watch-a-yale-historian-explains-to-maher-how-trump-resembles-1930s-fascists-and-makes-the-russia-connection/. See also Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (New York: Duggan Books, 2017); Robert O. Paxton, “American Duce: Is Donald Trump a Fascist or a Plutocrat?” Harper’s Magazine (May 2017), pp. 38–39; and Amy Goodman, “Father of Fascism Studies: Donald Trump Shows Alarming Willingness to Use Fascist Terms & Styles,” Democracy Now! (March 15, 2016), accessed February 16, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2016/3/15/father_of_fascism_studies_donald_trump
5. Ibid., Paxton, “American Duce: Is Donald Trump a Fascist or a Plutocrat?”
6. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001); Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).
7. Neal Gabler, “The Sham Presidency,” Moyers & Company (May 3, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.billmoyers.com/story/the-sham-presidency/. This is a particularly weak argument that underestimates gravely the echoes of fascism present in Trump’s discourse and policies.
8. Corey Robin, “If authoritarianism is looming in the US, how come Donald Trump looks so weak?” The Guardian (January 13, 2018). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2018/jan/13/american-democracy-peril-trump-power
9. Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015), p. 51.
10. Andrew O’Hehir, “Whether Trump Is a Fascist or Is Just a Clown, He’s a Threat to Democracy All the Same,” AlterNet (May 8, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.alternet.org/right-wing/trump-really-building-fascist-regime-or-it-all-just-showmanship-either-way-threat?akid=15530.40823.ZMvjXo&rd=1&src=newsletter1076583&t=6
11. Victoria Di Grazia, “Many Call Trump a Fascist. 100 Days In, Is He Just a Reactionary Republican?” The Guardian (April 30, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/30/donald-trump-fascist-republican-100-days
12. Cited in Richard Brody, “Pasolini’s Theorem,” The New Yorker (April 29, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/pasolinis-theorem
13. Jacob Hamburger, “Wendy Brown: ‘Who is not a Neoliberal Today?’” Tocqueville21.com (January 18, 2018). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.tocqueville21.com/interviews/wendy-brown-not-neoliberal-today/
14. Bess Levin, “Populist Hero Mike Pence Casts Tie-Breaking Vote to Protect Banks from Lawsuits,” Vanity Fair (October 25, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/mike-pence-arbitration-rule-vote
15. Ibid.
16. Christopher R. Browning, “Lessons from Hitler’s Rise,” New York Review of Books (April 20, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/04/20/lessons-from-hitlers-rise/
17. Adam Gopnik, “Being Honest About Trump,” The New Yorker (July 14, 2016). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/being-honest-about-trump
18. Chauncey DeVega, “Leading Historian Believes ‘It’s Pretty Much Inevitable’ Trump Will Try to Stage a Coup and Overthrow Democracy,” AlterNet (May 1, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/leading-historian-believes-its-pretty-much-inevitable-trump-will-try-stage-coup
19. Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (New York: Duggan Books, 2017).
20. Michael Yates, “Honor the Vietnamese, Not the Men Who Killed Them,” Monthly Review 67:1 (2015). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.monthlyreview.org/2015/05/01/honor-the-vietnamese-not-those-who-killed-them/
21. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, p. 468.
22. Peter Maass, “Donald Trump’s war on journalism has begun. But journalists are not his main target,” The Intercept (May 28, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.theintercept.com/2017/05/28/donald-trumps-war-on-journalism-has-begun-but-journalists-are-not-his-main-target/
23. Ibid.
24. Robert Reich, “Trump’s Rollback of Civil Rights,” Robert Reich’s Blog (May 30, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.robertreich.org/post/161257297645
25. Ibid.
26. Phillip Smith, “Why Jeff Sessions’ war on weed is a futile pursuit,” Alternet (January 10, 2018). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.salon.com/2018/01/10/why-jeff-sessions-war-on-weed-is-a-futile-pursuit_partner/
27. New York Times Editorial Board, “President Trump’s Thing for Thugs,” New York Times, November 13, 2017. Accessed February 16, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/opinion/president-trump-authoritarianism.html
28. Jefferson Morley, “Top 5 Bad Hombres Loved by Trump,” AlterNet (May 3, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.alternet.org/top-5-bad-hombres-loved-trump
29. Helene Fouquet and Gregory Viscusi, “Paris Exhibition on Nazi Collaboration Sheds Light on Dark Past,” Bloomberg (December 15, 2014). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-15/paris-exhibition-on-nazi-collaboration-sheds-light-on-dark-past
30. Roger Cohen, “France in the End of Days: Marine le Pen’s Road to Victory Is Clear Enough. Can a Pragmatist Stop the Extreme Right?” New York Times (April 14, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/opinion/sunday/france-in-the-end-of-days.html
31. Editorial Staff, “10 Popular Companies that Profited in Nazi Concentration Camps,” TopInfo Post (January 23, 2015). Accessed February 27, 2018: en.azvision.az/news/27422/10-popular-companies-that-profited-in-nazi-concentration-camps-photos.html
32. Alexandra Rosenmann, “Noam Chomsky Unveils America’s Deplorable History of Playing Footsie with Fascism,” AlterNet (October 15, 2016). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.alternet.org/election-2016/noam-chomsky-unveils-americas-deplorable-history-playing-footsie-fascism
33. Cited in Brian Bennett, “‘America First,’ a Phrase with a Loaded Anti-Semitic and Isolationist History,” LA Times (January 20, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-americafirst-20170120-story.html
34. Cited in John Bellamy Foster, “Neofascism in the White House,” Monthly Review 68:11 (April 1, 2017), p. 4.
35. Michael Brenner, “How Autocracy Will Come To America,” Huffington Post (November 30, 2016). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-autocracy-will-come-to-america_us_583f559ae4b0c68e047ec72f
36. Felipe Villamor, “Rodrigo Duterte Says Donald Trump Endorses His Violent Antidrug Campaign,” New York Times (December 3, 2016). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/world/asia/philippines-rodrigo-duterte-donald-trump.html
37. See: Amy Goodman “Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s Embrace of Duterte’s Deadly War on Drugs in the Philippines,” Democracy Now! (May 25, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2017/5/25/jeremy_scahill_on_trumps_embrace_of
38. The transcript can be see here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/3729123-POTUS-RD-Doc.html#document/p1
39. Ibid., Felipe Villamor, “Rodrigo Duterte Says Donald Trump Endorses His Violent Antidrug Campaign.”
40. Editorial, “Donald Trump Embraces Another Despot,” New York Times (May 1, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/opinion/donald-trump-embraces-rodrigo-duterte.html
41. Editorial, “Accountability for Duterte,” New York Times (March 24, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/opinion/accountability-for-rodrigo-duterte.html
42. Cited in Iris C. Gonzales, “Philippines’ Duterte Threatens Assassination of Journalists,” New Internationalist Blog (June 22, 2016). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.newint.org/blog/2016/06/22/philippines-duterte-threatens-assassination-of-journalists/
43. Ibid.
44. Oliver Holmes, “Trump hails ‘great relationship’ with Philippines’ Duterte,” The Guardian (November 13, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/13/trump-hails-great-relationship-with-philippines-duterte
45. Richard C. Paddock, “Becoming Duterte: The Making of a Philippine Strongman,” New York Times (March 21, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/world/asia/rodrigo-duterte-philippines-president-strongman.html
46. Bob Dreyfus, “Why Does Trump Embrace Foreign Dictators?” Rolling Stone (May 4, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-does-trump-embrace-foreign-dictators-w480709
47. Mark Landler, “Trump Invites Rodrigo Duterte to the White House,” New York Times (April 30, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/us/politics/trump-invites-rodrigo-duterte-to-thewhite-house.html
48. Paddock, “Becoming Duterte: The Making of a Philippine Strongman.”
49. Ibid., Felipe Villamor, “Rodrigo Duterte Says Donald Trump Endorses His Violent Antidrug Campaign.”
50. Ibid., Iris C. Gonzales, “Philippines’ Duterte Threatens Assassination of Journalists.”
51. Cited in Jeremy Scahill, “Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s Embrace of Duterte’s Deadly War on Drugs in the Philippines,” Democracy Now! (May 25. 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2017/5/25/jeremy_scahill_on_trumps_embrace_of
52. Daniel Berehulak, “‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals,’” New York Times (December 7, 2016). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/07/world/asia/rodrigo-duterte-philippines-drugs-killings.html
53. Judd Legum, “Why Did Trump Invite a Murderous Autocrat to the White House? Follow the Money,” Think Progress (May 1, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.thinkprogress.org/why-did-trump-invite-a-murderous-autocrat-to-the-white-house-follow-the-money-de60bb6a88a0
54. Juan Cole, “For First Time, a US President Backs a Fascist France,” Informed Comment (April 24, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.juancole.com/2017/04/president-fascist-france.html
55. Mark Landler, “Trump Congratulates Erdogan on Turkey Vote Cementing His Rule,” New York Times (April 17, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/us/politics/trump-erdogan-turkey-referendum.html
56. Shalini Randeria, “Orbán’s assault on academic freedom,” Eurozine (April 5, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.eurozine.com/orbans-assault-on-academic-freedom/
57. Jennifer Williams and Zack Beauchamp, “Egypt’s President Is a Bloodthirsty Dictator. Trump Thinks He’s Done a ‘Fantastic Job,’” Vox (April 3, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.vox.com/world/2017/4/3/15160358/trump-egypt-abdel-fattah-el-sisi-white-house
58. Joshua Hammond, “Egypt: The New Dictatorship,” The New York Review of Books (June 8, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/06/08/egypt-the-new-dictatorship/. See, in particular, Jack Shenker, The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution (New York: New Press, 2017). Also, Ibid., Jennifer Williams and Zack Beauchamp, “Egypt’s President Is a Bloodthirsty Dictator.”
59. Jeremy Venook, “Trump’s Been Talking about His Business Interests in Russia for 30 Years,” The Atlantic (May 10, 2017). Accessed February 16, 2018: www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/trump-lawyers-up-conflicts-of-interest/526185/
60. Martin Pengelly, “Nikki Haley: Trump aimed to ‘keep Kim on his toes’ with ‘nuclear button’ tweet,” The Guardian (January 7, 2018). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/07/nikki-haley-trump-kim-nuclear-button-tweet-toes
61. Ibid., Jeremy Venook, “Trump’s Been Talking about His Business Interests in Russia for 30 Years.”
62. Ibid.
63. Ibid.
64. Cited in a personal correspondence (November 2016).
CHAPTER THREE
1. Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (Brooklyn, NY: Verso Press, 2013), pp. 14–15.
2. Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Fear (London: Polity Press, 2006), pp. 135–136.
3. Zygmunt Bauman and Carlo Bordoni, State of Crisis (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2014), pp. 14–15.
4. Ronald Aronson, “The Privatization of Hope,” Boston Review (April 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: bostonreview.net/editors-picks-usbooks-ideas/ronald-aronson-privatization-hope. See also, Ronald Aronson, We: Reviving Social Hope (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).
5. I take this issue up in great detail in Henry A. Giroux, Public Spaces, Private Lives (New York: Routledge, 2003).
6. George Monbiot, “Neoliberalism is creating loneliness. That what’s wrenching society apart,” The Guardian (October 12, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/12/neoliberalism-creating-loneliness-wrenching-society-apart
7. Rabbi Michael Lerner, “Overcoming Trump-ism: A New Strategy for Progressives,” Tikkun Magazine, Vol. 32, No. 1, Winter 2017. Accessed February 20, 2018: www.tikkun.org/nextgen/overcoming-trump-ism-a-new-strategy-for-progressives
8. Cornelius Castoriadis, “The Destinies of Totalitarianism,” Salmagundi, No. 60 (Spring-Summer, 1983), p. 109.
9. Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness,” New Republic (May 13, 2013). Accessed February 20, 2018: newrepublic.com/article/113176/science-loneliness-how-isolation-can-kill-you
10. Sabrina Maddeaux, “The rise of richface: why so many young women are getting cosmetic surgery,” The Globe and Mail (Jul. 31, 2015). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.theglobeandmail.com/life/fashion-and-beauty/beauty/the-rise-of-richface-whymore-and-more-young-women-are-getting-cosmetic-surgery/article25756128/
11. Margaret Bolton, Loneliness—the state we’re in (Oxford, UK: Age UK Oxfordshire 2012).
12. Byung-Chul Han, In the Swarm: Digital Prospects, tr. Erik Butler. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017), p. 15.
13. Ibid., pp. 2, 17.
14. James Rule, “Markets, in Their Place,” Dissent (Winter 1998), p. 31.
15. Amy Goodman, “On Tyranny: Yale Historian Timothy Snyder on How the U.S. Can Avoid Sliding into Authoritarianism,” Democracy Now! (May 30, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2017/5/30/on_tyranny_yale_historian_timothy_snyder?utm_source=-Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=b9c7f250d4-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-b9c7f250d4-190213053
16. John M. Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 168.
17. David Remnick, “An American Tragedy,” The New Yorker (November 9, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-american-tragedy-2
18. Tom Engelhardt, “Was 11/8 a New 9/11? The Election That Changed Everything and Could Prove History’s Deal-Breaker,” TomDispatch.com (December 1, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.tomdispatch.com/post/176216/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_most_dangerous_country_on_earth/#more
19. Adam Haslett, “Donald Trump, Shamer in Chief,” The Nation (October 4, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-shamer-in-chief/
20. On Trump and the discourse of shame, see Adam Haslett, “Donald Trump, Shamer in Chief.”
21. On the issue of bullying as a national pastime, see Charles Derber and Yale R. Magrass, Bully Nation: How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society (Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2016).
22. Gabby Morrongiello, “Trump draws comparisons during visit to Andrew Jackson’s grave,” Washington Examiner (March 15, 2017). Accessed November 15, 2017: Accessed February 20, 2018: www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-draws-comparisons-during-visit-to-andrew-jacksons-grave/article/2617502
23. Sophie Tatum and Dan Merica, “Trump holds event honoring Native American veterans in front of Andrew Jackson picture,” CNN. Accessed February 20, 2018: www.cnn.com/2017/11/27/politics/donald-trump-andrew-jackson/index.html
24. I have borrowed Robinson’s term from Robin D.G. Kelley, “Birth of a Nation,” Boston Review (March 6, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: bostonreview.net/race-politics/robin-d-g-kelley-births-nation
25. Some of the best work on this subject has been done by Zygmunt Bauman: see Wasted Lives (London: Polity, 2004) and Consuming Life (London: Polity, 2007).
26. Katie Lobosco and Logan Whiteside, “In the Age of Trump, there’s a New School Bully,” CNNMoney (October 25, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: money.cnn.com/2016/10/25/news/trump-rhetoric-school-bullying/
27. W.J.T. Mitchell, “The Trolls of Academe: Making Safe Spaces into Brave Spaces,” Los Angeles Review of Books (January 5, 2018). Accessed February 20, 2018: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-trolls-of-academe-making-safe-spaces-into-brave-spaces/
28. Brad Evans and Julien Reid, “The Promise of Violence in the Age of Catastrophe,” Truthout (January 5, 2014). Accessed February 20, 2018: truth-out.org/opinion/item/20977-the-promise-of-violence-in-the-age-of-catastrophe
29. Neal Gabler, “How the Media Enabled Donald Trump by Destroying Politics First,” Moyers & Company (March 4, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: billmoyers.com/story/how-the-media-enabled-donald-trump-by-destroying-politics-first/
30. Charles Derber and Yale R. Magrass, Bully Nation, p. 153.
31. Jessica Lustig, “From ‘Hamilton’ to Donald Trump: Are All ‘Grievances’ Created Equal?” New York Times Magazine (October 25, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/magazine/from-hamilton-to-donald-trump-are-all-grievances-created-equal.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&action=click&contentCollection=magazine®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=sectionfront
32. For an excellent analysis and critique of the right-wing trolling universe, see Andrew Marantz, “Trolls for Trump,” The New Yorker (October 30, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/trolls-for-trump
33. Jared Keller, “Trump’s Grand Troll Campaign Is Just Getting Started,” The Village Voice (October 26, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.villagevoice.com/news/trumps-grand-troll-campaign-is-just-getting-started-9264778?utm_source=Newsletters&utm_medium=email
34. Andrew Marantz, “Trolls for Trump,” The New Yorker.
35. Mark Danner, “The Magic of Donald Trump,” The New York Review of Books (May 26, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/05/26/the-magic-of-donald-trump/
CHAPTER FOUR
1. Marian Wright Edelman, “Why America May Go to Hell,” Huffington Post (November 17, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-america-may-go-to-hell_us_5a0f4dd4e4b023121e0e9281
2. Ibid.
3. Tara Culp-Ressler, “The Oklahoma Republican Party’s Deeply Offensive Facebook Post,” ThinkProgress (July 14, 2015). Accessed February 20, 2018: thinkprogress.org/the-oklahoma-republican-partys-deeply-offensive-facebook-post-e4516db63598/
4. Ibid. Tara Culp-Ressler.
5. Paul Krugman, “Republicans Simply Want to Hurt People,” AlterNet (January 12, 2018). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/paul-krugman-republicans-simply-want-hurt-people
6. Greg Jericho, “Flogging the dead horse of neoliberalism isn’t going to improve the economy,” The Guardian (April 2, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2017/apr/02/flogging-the-dead-horse-of-neoliberalism-isnt-going-to-improve-the-economy; for a rebuttal to this position, see Colin Crouch, The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism (London: Polity, 2011).
7. Ariel Dorfman, Ariel Dorfman, “Trump’s War on Knowledge,” The New York Review of Books (October 12, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/10/12/trumps-war-on-knowledge/
8. Ibid.
9. Jean Franco, Cruel Modernity (Durham, NC: Duke University, 2013), p. 2.
10. Christopher Ingraham, “Fringe Groups Revel as Protests Turn Violent,” New York Times (June 2, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/us/politics/white-nationalists-alt-knights-protests-colleges.html?_r=0
11. See for instance, the incident in which a white nationalist, 35-yearold Jeremy Christian, accused two young women, one of whom was wearing a hijab, “of terrorism, tax evasion and general un-Americanness. When three men stepped up to intervene in the assault, Christian was ready with a knife, stabbing each one, successively, in the jugular and killing two of them. See Shane Burley, “As the ‘alt-right’ moves to violence, community responses matter,” Wagingnonviolence (June 1, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: wagingnonviolence.org/feature/alt-right-violence-portland-community-response/
12. See the following detailed sources on this issue: Lisa Marie Cacho, Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (New York: New York University Press, 2012); Saskia Sassen, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global economy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014); Brad Evans and Henry A. Giroux, Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle (San Francisco: City Lights 2015).
13. Jordan Weissmann, “Trump’s Budget Director Has a Breathtakingly Cynical Excuse for Cutting Aid to the Poor,” Slate (March 16, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/03/16/mulvaney_says_cutting_aid_to_the_poor_is_compassionate.html
14. Ibid.
15. Nancy Gertner and Chiraag Bains, “Mandatory minimum sentences are cruel and ineffective. Sessions wants them back,” Washington Post (May 15, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/15/mandatory-minimum-sentences-are-cruel-and-in-effective-sessions-wants-them-back/?utm_term=.a7027b1209ea.
16. Ibid. Gertner and Bains, “Mandatory minimum sentences are cruel and ineffective. Sessions Wants them Back.” There are a number of excellent books on prison reform, including the following: Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016); Nell Bernstein, Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison (New York: The New Press, 2016); Maya Schenwar, Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2014); Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (New York: The New Press, 2010).
17. Brad Evans, “Humans in Dark Times,” New York Times (February 23, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/opinion/humans-in-dark-times.html?_r=0
18. Elizabeth Grossman, “This Is What the Brutal Consequences of Trump’s Proposed Budget Slash for the Labor Dept. Would Look Like,” AlterNet (March 19, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.alternet.org/what-slashing-labor-department-budget-21-percent-would-mean
19. Paul Krugman, “The Scammers, the Scammed and America’s Fate,” New York Times (March 24, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/opinion/the-scammers-the-scammed-and-americas-fate.html
20. Matthew Goldstein, “As C.E.O. Pay Packages Grow, Top Executives Have the President’s Ear,” New York Times (May 28, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/business/ceo-compensation-pay-president-donald-trump.html
21. Tom Engelhardt, “Little Big Man: Into the Whirlwind,” TomDispatch.com (May 28, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.tomdispatch.com/post/176288/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_thank_you%2C_donald/#more
22. Jeff Pegues, “Man captures video of ‘patient dumping’ outside Baltimore hospital,” CBS NEWS (January 10, 2018, 7:04 PM). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.cbsnews.com/news/man-captures-video-of-patient-dumping-outside-baltimore-hospital/
23. Richard J. Evans, “A Warning from History,” The Nation (February 28, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.thenation.com/article/the-ways-to-destroy-democracy/
24. Ibid.
25. Jonathan Schell, “Cruel America,” The Nation (September 28, 2011). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.thenation.com/article/163690/cruel-america
26. Kim Soffen and Denise Lu, “What Trump Cut in His Budget,” Washington Post (March 16, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-presidential-budget-2018-proposal/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.489231e7a326
27. Robert Reich, “4 Reasons the Trump Administration Is Unspeakably Cruel,” AlterNet (March 17, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/robert-reich-4-reasons-trump-administration-unspeakably-cruel
28. Ibid.
29. Marian Wright Edelman, “President Trump’s War on Children,” Children’s Defense Fund (May 26, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: cdf. childrensdefense.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=47996&em_id=47006.0
30. Julie Hirschfield Davis, “Trump’s Budget Cuts Deeply into Medicaid and Anti-Poverty Efforts,” New York Times (May 22, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts.html?_r=0
31. Dan Rather, “We Must Be Steady as the Winds of Our Age Swirl and Rattle at our Souls,” Reader Supported News (May 28, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/43817-focus-we-must-be-steady-as-the-winds-of-our-age-swirl-and-rattle-at-oursouls
32. Paul Baskin, “What Trump’s Budget Outline Would Mean for Higher Ed,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 16, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.chronicle.com/article/What-Trump-s-Budget-Outline/239511?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en&elqTrack-Id=b7079d71a014fb6910f188d2d5753ac&elq=70dd649a3da84960bd6012a5ceb0aee2&elqaid=12999&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=5365
33. Steven Rosenfeld, “Trump’s Budget Vision Would Transform America into War-Obsessed, Survival-of-the-Fittest Dystopia,” AlterNet (March 16, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.alternet.org/election-2016/trumps-budget-vision-would-transform-america-war-obsessed-survival-fittest-dystopia?akid=15308.40823.d8Ix8e&rd=1&src=newsletter1073980&t=2
34. Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Patricia Cohen, “Trump Tax Plan Would Shift Trillions From U.S. Coffers to the Richest,” New York Times (April 27, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/us/politics/individual-business-tax-wealth.html
35. Ibid. Marian Wright Edelman, “President Trump’s War on Children.”
36. Jessica Tayler, Danielle Kurtzblen, and Scott Horsley, “Trump Unveils ‘Hard Power’ Budget that Boosts Military Spending,” National Public Radio (March 16, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.npr.org/2017/03/16/520305293/trump-to-unveil-hard-power-budget-that-boosts-military-spending
37. Ibid. Marian Wright Edelman,” President Trump’s War on Children.”
38. Cited in Deirdre Fulton, “‘Morally Obscene’ Trump Budget Proposal Stands to Make America Cruel Again,” CommonDreams (March 16, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/16/morally-obscene-trump-budget-proposal-stands-make-america-cruel-again
39. Aaron Rupar, “Fox News Host Argues Stripping Coverage from Millions is no biggie since ‘we’re all going to die’” ThinkProgress (June 28, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: thinkprogress.org/kennedy-fox-news-trumpcare-we-are-all-going-to-die-50d86cbd9bb5
40. Robert Reich, “Trumpcare isn’t about health. It’s a tax cut for the 1%,” The Guardian (June 26, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/26/trumpcare-health-tax-cut-1-percent
41. Laila Lalami, “The Senate Health-Care Bill Is Morally Indefensible,” The Nation (June 27, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.thenation.com/article/the-senate-healthcare-bill-is-morally-indefensible/
42. Ibid.
43. Dahr Jamail, “The GOP’s Health Care Legislation Is Cruel and Punitive, Doctors Say,” Truthout (July 10, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.truth-out.org/news/item/41213-the-gop-s-health-care-legislation-iscruel-and-punitive-doctors-say
44. Katherine Gallagher Robbins and Rachel West, “Trump’s Medicaid Work Requirements Could Put At Least 6.3 Million Americans at Risk of Losing Health Care,” Center for American Progress (January 12, 2018). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.americanprogress.org/issues/poverty/news/2018/01/12/444953/trumps-medicaid-work-requirements-put-least-6-3-million-americans-risk-losing-health-care/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=progReport
45. Claire Snell-Rood & Cathleen Willging, “GOP health care bill would make rural America’s distress much worse,” The Conversation (June 26, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: theconversation.com/gop-health-care-bill-would-make-rural-americas-distress-much-worse-78018gophealth-care-bill-would-make-rural-americas-distress-much-worse-78018
46. Cited in Amy Goodman, “Senate GOP Healthcare Bill Estimated to Kill 28,600 More in U.S. Each Year & Drop 22M from Insurance,” Democracy Now! (June 27, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2017/6/27/senate_gop_healthcare_bill_estimated_to
47. David Cecere, “New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage,” Harvard Gazette (September 17, 2009). Accessed February 20, 2018: news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/
48. Slavoj Žižek, Demanding the Impossible (New York: Indigo, 2013), p. 63
49. Zygmunt Bauman, Identity—Conversations with Benedetto Vecchi (London: Polity Press, 2004), p. 40.
50. Ibid. p. 72.
51. Peter Baker, “‘Very Frustrated’ Trump Becomes Top Critic of Law Enforcement,” New York Times (November 3, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/us/politics/trump-says-justice-dept-and-fbi-must-do-what-is-right-and-investigate-dem-ocrats.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=-first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
52. Timothy Shenk, “Booked: The Origins of the Carceral State,” Dissent (August 30, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/booked-origins-carceral-state-elizabeth-hinton
53. Richard A. Friedman, “What Cookies and Meth Have in Common,” New York Times (July 2, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/opinion/sunday/what-cookies-and-meth-have-in-common.html?_r=0
54. Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis. Liquid Evil (Polity Press, 2016: Cambridge, UK), p. 8.
CHAPTER FIVE
1. Oxfam, “An Economy for the 99 percent,” Oxfam Briefing Paper (January 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/bp-economy-for-99-percent-160117-en.pdf
2. This is a play on Henry A. Kissinger’s comment in describing Lenin’s approach to politics, which was politics as a continuation of war by other means, thus turning Clausewitz’s argument “on its head.” See: Christopher Bassford, Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), p.198.
3. João Biehl, Vita: Life in A Zone of Social Abandonment (Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2005), p. 20.
4. See, for instance, Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (London: Verso Press, 2004).
5. Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Times (London: Polity Press, 2007), p.11
6. Ibid., Butler, pp. 34, 33.
7. Julia Conley, “‘People Are Dying’ But Trump Gives Himself Perfect ‘10’ for Puerto Rico Response,” CommonDreams (October 19, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.commondreams.org/news/2017/10/19/people-are-dying-trump-gives-himself-perfect-10-puerto-rico-response
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Michael Melia, “Puerto Rico investigating possible post-hurricane disease outbreak after 4 deaths,” The Associated Press (October 11, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: globalnews.ca/news/3797040/puerto-rico-hurricane-disease-outbreak-deaths
11. Aaron Blake, “Trump doesn’t get it on Puerto Rico. He just proved it by lashing out at San Juan’s mayor.” Washington Post (September 30, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/30/trump-doesnt-get-it-on-puerto-rico-he-just-proved-it-by-lashing-out-at-san-juans-mayor/?utm_term=.174cba31d3c6
12. Jon Lee Anderson, “The Mayor of San Juan on Trump’s ‘Big Mouth’ and What Puerto Rico Needs,” The New Yorker (October 12, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-mayor-of-san-juan-on-trumps-big-mouth-and-what-puerto-rico-needs
13. Ibid.
14. Frances Robles, “Puerto Rico’s Health Care Is in Dire Condition, Three Weeks after Maria,” New York Times (October 10, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/puerto-rico-power-hospitals.html
15. Ibid.
16. Lauren Berlant, “Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency),” Critical Inquiry, 33 (The University of Chicago, Summer 2007). Accessed February 20, 2018: users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/%20Tempest%20 Drown%20before%20reading/lauren%20Berlant%20slow%20death.pdf
17. Cited in ibid., Frances Robles, “Puerto Rico’s Health Care Is in Dire Condition, Three Weeks after Maria.”
18. Mark Hand, “Trump’s second-class response to Hurricane Maria deepens the divide with Puerto Rico,” Think-Progress (October 17, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: thinkprogress.org/puerto-rico-and-mainland-america-fb2911337deb/
19. Stan Cox, Paul Cox, “Before Maria, Forcing Puerto Rico to Pay It’s Debt Was Odious. Now It’s Pure Cruelty,” CounterPunch (October 3, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.commondreams.org/views/2017/10/03/maria-forcing-puerto-rico-pay-its-debt-was-odious-now-its-pure-cruelty
20. Amy Davidson Sorkin, “Disasters Will Happen,” The New Yorker (October 16, 2017), p. 21.
21. Paul Krugman, “Let them eat paper towels,” New York Times (October 12, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/opinion/trump-tweets-puerto-rico.html?_r=0
22. Ibid., Jon Lee Anderson, “The Mayor of San Juan on Trump’s ‘Big Mouth’ and What Puerto Rico Needs.”
23. Alexia Fernández Campbell, “Trump to Puerto Rico: your hurricane isn’t a ‘real catastrophe’ like Katrina” Vox (October 3, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.vox.com/2017/10/3/16411488/trump-remarks-puerto-rico
24. Jeffrey St. Clair, “The Resident Evil,” CounterPunch (October 6, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/06/the-resident-evil/
25. Sonali Kolhatkar, “Trump’s Cruel Indifference to Puerto Rico,” Truthdig (September 28, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.truthdig.com/articles/trumps-cruel-indifference-puerto-rico/
26. Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The First White President,” The Atlantic (October 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/
27. Ryan Teague Beckwith, “‘We Cannot Admit Everyone.’ Read a Transcript of Jeff Sessions’ Remarks on Ending the DACA,” Time (September 05, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: time.com/4927426/daca-dreamers-jeff-sessions-transcript/
28. Juan Cole, “Deporting Dreamers Would Cost U.S. $460 Billion,” Truthdig (September 6, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.truthdig.com/articles/deporting-dreamers-will-cost-u-s-400-billion-10-years
29. William Finnegan, “Is Ending DACA the Worst Decision Trump Has Made?” The New Yorker (September 18, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/is-ending-daca-the-worst-decision-trump-has-made
30. Ibid.
31. Mark Joseph Stern, “Jeff Sessions Spews Nativist Lies While Explaining Why Trump Is Killing DACA,” Bill Moyers and Company (September 5, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/09/05/sessions_daca_speech_was_full_of_nativist_lies.html
32. For a brilliant analysis of Trump’s rise to power as part of a broader history of American conservatism, see Lawrence Grossberg, Under the Cover of Chaos: Trump and the Battle for the American Right (London: Pluto Press, 2018).
33. Alexander Bolton, “Negotiating with Trump like negotiating with Jell-O,” The Hill (January 20, 2018). Accessed February 20, 2018: thehill.com/homenews/senate/369929-schumer-working-with-trump-like-negotiating-with-jello
34. Eileen Sullivan, “‘Outrageous,’ White House Says of DACA Ruling, as Trump Calls Court System ‘Broken,’” New York Times (January 10, 2018). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/us/politics/outrageous-white-house-says-of-judges-daca-ruling.html?emc=edit_nn_20180111&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=51563793&te=1
35. Michael D. Shearjan, “Trump Must Keep DACA Protections for Now, Judge Says,” New York Times (January 9, 2018). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/us/trump-daca-improper.html
36. Jeffrey St. Clair, “The Resident Evil,” CounterPunch (October 6, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/06/the-resident-evil/
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. John W. Whitehead, “Mass Shootings: The Military-Entertainment Complex’s Culture of Violence Turns Deadly,” The Rutherford Institute (October 3, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/mass_shootings_the_military_entertainment_complexs_culture_of_violence
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. Cornelius Castoriadis, The Rising Tide of Insignificancy: The Big Sleep (New York: Not Bored, 2003), p. 4.
43. Wendy Brown, “Apocalyptic Populism,” Eurozine (September 5, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.eurozine.com/apocalyptic-populism/
44. Ariel Dorfman, “Trump’s War on Knowledge,” The New York Review of Books (October 12, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/10/12/trumps-war-on-knowledge/
45. Paul Street, “The NRA’s Latest Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil,” CounterPunch (October 4, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/04/the-nras-latest-terrorist-attack-on-u-s-soil/
46. Chris Hedges, “America’s ‘Death Instinct’ Spreads Misery Across the World,” AlterNet (September 30, 2014). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.alternet.org/world/americas-death-instinct-spreads-misery-across-world
47. Josep R. Llobera, “The Origins of Nazi Ideology,” The Making of Totalitarian Thought (New York, Berg: 2003), p. 135.
48. Weismann interviewed on CBS Nightly News on October 20, 2017. Accessed February 20, 2018: www.cbsnews.com/videos/1020-cbs-evening-news/
49. Eric Lipton, “Why Has the E.P.A. Shifted on Toxic Chemicals? An Industry Insider Helps Call the Shots,” New York Times (October 21, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/us/trump-epa-chemicals-regulations.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Home-page&clickSource=story-heading&module=-first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
50. Chris Hedges, “America’s Addiction to Violence – From War to Vigilante Mobs – Is a Conservative Legacy,” AlterNet (June 25, 2015). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.alternet.org/books/chris-hedges-americas-addiction-violence-war-vigilante-mobs-conservative-legacy
51. Robert O. Paxton, “The Five Stages of Fascism,” The Journal of Modern History 70:1 (March 1998), p. 12.
CHAPTER SIX
1. Denver Nicks, “The U.S. Is Still No.1 at Selling Arms to the World,” Time Magazine (December 26, 2015). Accessed February 20, 2018: time.com/4161613/us-arms-sales-exports-weapons/. See also Andrew J. Bacevich, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010).
2. Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress can be found in: “Here Are 4,826 Words Donald Trump Included in His Speech,” Mother Jones (February 28, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/read-full-text-donald-trumps-speech-congress
3. Michael S. Schmidt, “Dismayed by Trump, Head of Drug Enforcement Administration to Leave,” New York Times (September 26, 2017). Accessed November 14, 2017: Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/us/politics/chuck-rosenberg-dea-resigns.html
4. Kim Soffen, “Yes, Violence in America Has Suddenly Increased. But That’s Far from the Whole Story,” Washington Post (July 8, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/08/why-america-feels-so-violent-right-now/?utm_term=.2be7b2d502ce
5. David Leonhardt, “The Lawless Presidency,” New York Times (June 6, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/opinion/the-lawless-presidency.html
6. Jennifer Rubin, “Why Trump and Sessions are now in a heap of legal trouble,” Washington Post (January 5, 2018). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/01/05/a-heap-of-legal-trouble-for-trump-and-sessions/?utm_term=.1a0db8900a19
7. Peter Baker, Michael S. Schmidt, and Maggie Haberman, “Citing Recusal, Trump Says He Wouldn’t Have Hired Session,” New York Times (July 19, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-sessions-russia.html
8. Jeffrey Tobin, “Donald Trump and the Rule of Law,” The New Yorker (January 6, 2018). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trump-and-the-rule-of-law
9. Ibid. David Leonhardt, “The Lawless Presidency.”
10. Marjorie Cohn, “Donald Trump vs. The Rule of Law,” Truthout (August 02, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.truth-out.org/news/item/41480-donald-trump-vs-the-rule-of-law
11. Amy Goodman, “Cornel West on Donald Trump: This Is What Neo-Fascism Looks Like,” Democracy Now! (December 1, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2016/12/1/cornel_west_on_donald_trump_this
12. John Cassidy, “A Racist in the Oval Office,” The New Yorker (January 12, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trump-shithole-comment-racist-in-the-oval-office?mbid=nl_Daily%20011218%20Nonsubs&CNDID=42733863&sp-MailingID=12736804&spUserID=MTM4NzE1OTE4NjE5S0&spJobID=1321138695&spReportId=MTMyMTEzODY5NQS2
13. Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “Stoking Fears, Trump Defied Bureaucracy to Advance Immigration Agenda,” New York Times (December 23, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/politics/trump-immigration.html?_r=1
14. Dahlia Lithwick, “Trump Lays Down His Law,” Slate (January 20, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/01/trump_s_inaugural_address_was_terrifying.html
15. Chauncey DeVega, “Trump’s Election Has Created ‘Safe Spaces’ for Racists: Southern Poverty Law Center’s Heidi Beirich on the Wave of Hate Crimes,” Salon (March 8, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.salon.com/2017/03/08/trumps-election-has-created-safe-spaces-for-racists-southern-poverty-law-centers-heidi-beirich-on-the-wave-of-hate-crimes/
16. Cited in ibid., Chauncey DeVega, “Trump’s Election Has Created ‘Safe Spaces’ for Racists.”
17. Sasha Bruce, “NARAL Statement on Nomination of Tom Price as Secretary of HHS,” NARAL Pro-Choice America (November 16, 2016). Accessible February 27, 2018: www.prochoiceamerica.org/2016/11/29/naral-statement-nomination-tom-price-secretary-hhs/
18. Ari Berman, “Jeff Sessions, Trump’s Pick for Attorney General, Is a Fierce Opponent of Civil Rights,” The Nation (November 18, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.thenation.com/article/jeff-sessions-trumps-pick-for-attorney-general-is-a-fierce-opponent-of-civil-rights/
19. Carimah Townes, “Despite his racist past, Jeff Sessions confirmed as attorney general,” ThinkProgress (February 3, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: thinkprogress.org/despite-racist-past-jeff-sessions-confirmed-as-attorney-general-46f70e02eec2
20. Emily Bazelon, “Department of Justification,” New York Times (February 28, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/magazine/jeff-sessions-stephen-bannon-justice-department.html
21. Miranda Blue, “12 Reasons Jeff Sessions Should Never Be Attorney General,” Right Wing Watch (November 18, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.rightwingwatch.org/post/12-reasons-jeff-sessions-should-never-be-attorney-general/
22. Andrew Kaczynski, “Sen. Sessions: Central Park Five Ad Shows Trump Has Always Believed In Law And Order,” BuzzFeed News (August 18, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/sen-sessions-central-park-five-ad-shows-trump-has-always-bel?utm_term=.ym71O7vMP#.fuqqeGk90
23. Ibid.
24. Amy Goodman, “A White Nationalist & Anti-Semite in the Oval Office: Trump Taps Breitbart’s Bannon as Top Aide,” Democracy Now! (November 14, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2016/11/14/a_white_nationalist_anti_semite_in
25. Associated Press, “Conservative Flame-Thrower to Get Key White House Position,” New York Times (November 14, 2016). Accessed February 27, 2018: apnews.com/dc5d25fc3c5e4c8fb35022d9917ad44d
26. Amy Goodman, “A White Nationalist & Anti-Semite.”
27. Rebecca Gould, “Regime Change Abroad, Fascism at Home: How US Interventions Paved the Way for Trump,” CounterPunch (November 29, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/29/regime-change-abroad-fascism-at-home-how-us-interventions-paved-the-way-for-trump/
28. Loren Thompson, “For the Defense Industry, Trump’s Win Means Happy Days Are Here Again,” Forbes (November 9, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2016/11/09/for-the-defense-industry-trumps-win-means-happy-days-are-here-again/#90fe95652f02
29. William D. Hartung, “A Pentagon Rising: Is a Trump Presidency Good News for the Military-Industrial Complex?” TomDispatch (November 22, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176213/tomgram%3A_william_hartung%2C_trump_for_the_defense/
30. Robbie Martin, “Trump’s Dark Web of Far Right Militarists Who Want to Attack Iran,” The Real News (November 28, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=17662
31. Melvin A. Goodman, “Trump’s Campaign of Militarization,” CounterPunch (November 23, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.counter-punch.org/2016/11/23/trumps-campaign-of-militarization/
32. Matthew Rosenberg and Maggie Haberman, “Michael Flynn, Anti-Islamist Ex-General, Offered Security Post, Trump Aide Says,” New York Times (November 17, 2006). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/us/politics/michael-flynn-national-security-adviser-donald-trump.html
33. Ibid.
34. Lawrence Douglas, “Lying Got Michael Flynn Fired. But that’s What the Trump White House Does Best,” The Guardian (February 15, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/15/lying-got-michael-flynn-fired-trump-white-house
35. Andrew Bacevich, “Trump Loves to Do It, but American Generals Have Forgotten How,” Tom Dispatch (November 29, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.tomdispatch.com/post/176215/tomgram%3A_andrew_bacevich,_the_swamp_of_war/
36. Hugh Handeyside, “Does What Happened to this Journalist at the US-Canada Border Herald a Darker Trend?” CommonDreams (November 30, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.commondreams.org/views/2016/11/30/does-what-happened-journalist-us-canada-border-herald-darker-trend
37. Grace Guarnieri, “4 Hair-Raising Facts About Trump’s Potential Homeland Security Pick,” Salon (November 29, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.alternet.org/election-2016/4-hair-raising-facts-about-trumps-potential-homeland-security-pick?akid=14939.40823.PgLddF&rd=1&src=newsletter1068046&t=6
38. Michael D. Shear, “Trump as Cyberbully in Chief? Twitter Attack on Union Boss Draws Fire,” New York Times (December 8, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/politics/donald-trump-twitter-carrier-chuck-jones.html
39. Madeline Farber, “Union Leader Says He’s Getting Threats after Donald Trump Attacked Him on Twitter,” Fortune (December 9, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: fortune.com/2016/12/08/carrier-union-leader-threats-donald-trump/
40. Jenna Johnson, “Trump often condemns Democrats, defends Republicans on harassment allegations,” Washington Post (November 17, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-often-condemns-democrats-defends-republicans-on-harassment-allegations/2017/11/17/a3d890fc-cbb9-11e7-aa96-54417592cf72_story.html?undefined=&utm_term=.13dcdb35f3d5
41. Ashley Parker and John Wagner, “Trump retweets inflammatory and unverified anti-Muslim videos,” Washington Post (November 29, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/11/29/trump-retweets-inflammatory-and-unverified-anti-muslim-videos/?utm_term=.68e8d8c43c84
42. Ibid.
43. Peter Baker and Eileen Sullivan, “Trump Shares Inflammatory Anti-Muslim Videos, and Britain’s Leader Condemns Them,” New York Times (November 29, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/us/politics/trump-anti-muslim-videos-jayda-fransen.html
44. Charles Blow, “Trump, Proxy of Racism,” New York Times (November 30, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/opinion/trump-racism-white-supremacy.html
45. Ibid. Peter Baker and Eileen Sullivan.
46. Ibid. Ashley Parker and John Wagner.
47. Terry Gross, “Megyn Kelly on Trump and the Media: ‘We’re in a Dangerous Phase Right Now,’” Fresh Air (December 7, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.npr.org/2016/12/07/504622630/megyn-kelly-on-trump-and-the-media-were-in-a-dangerous-phase-right-now. See Chris Hedge’s informative commentary on this interview at Chris Hedges, “Demagogue-in-Chief,” TruthDig (December 11, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.truthdig.com/report/item/demagogue-in-chief_20161211
48. Angela Nagle, Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right (London: Zero Books, 2017).
49. Frank Rich, “Don’t Be Fooled: Donald Trump Will Never Walk Away From His Businesses,” New York Magazine (November 30, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/donald-trump-will-never-walk-away-from-his-businesses.html
50. Ibid.
51. John Nichols, “Wilbur Ross Is a Disgrace to Himself and His Country,” The Nation (May 23, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.thenation.com/article/wilbur-ross-disgrace-country/
52. Ibid. Nichols.
53. Will Worley, “Saudi Arabia to Behead Disabled Man ‘For Taking Part in Protests’ after ‘Forced Confession,” The Independent (May 26, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-behead-disabled-man-munir-adam-protests-forcedconfession-torture-death-sentence-court-a7758041.html
54. Amy Goodman, “Retired Police Detective: Trump’s Comments Endorsing Police Brutality are ‘Treasonous’,” Democracy Now! (July 31, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2017/7/31/retired_police_detective_trumps_comments_endorsing?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=2d339108f9-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-2d339108f9-190213053
55. Ibid.
56. For two excellent sources analyzing both police violence and the extortion imposed on poor Blacks, see Keenaga-Yamahtta Taylor, “The Double Standard of Justice,” From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Chicago: Haymarket, 2016) and Truthout Collective, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? (Chicago: Haymarket, 2016).
CHAPTER SEVEN
1. Editorial Board, “The Hate He Dares Not Speak Of,” New York Times (August 13, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/opinion/trump-charlottesville-hate-stormer.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
2. Jelani Cobb, “The Battle of Charlottesville,” The New Yorker (August 13, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-battle-of-charlottesville?mbid=nl_TNY%20Template%20-%20With%20Photo%20(198)&CNDID=42733863&sp-MailingID=11688178&spUserID=MTM4NzE1OTE4NjE5S0&spJobID=1221185809&spReportId=MTIyMTE4NTgwOQS2
3. Glenn Thrush, “New Outcry as Trump Rebukes Charlottesville Racists 2 Days Later,” New York Times (August 14, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/politics/trump-charlottesville-protest.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
4. Michael D. Shear and Maggie Habermanaug, “Trump Defends Initial Remarks on Charlottesville; Again Blames ‘Both Sides,’” New York Times (August 15, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/trump-press-conference-charlottesville.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
5. Jeffrey St Clair, “To See or to Nazi: Trump’s Moral Blindspot is America’s” CounterPunch (August 18, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/18/to-see-or-to-nazi-trumps-moral-blindspot-is-americas/
6. Adam Shatz, “Trump set them free.” London Review of Books (August 15, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2017/08/15/adam-shatz/trump-set-them-free/
7. Adam Goldman, “Trump Reverses Restrictions on Military Hardware for Police,” New York Times (August 28, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/trump-police-military-surplus-equipment.html?mcubz=3&_r=0
8. Marjorie Cohn, “Trump’s Arpaio Pardon Signals to White Supremacists: ‘I’ve Got Your Back.’” Truth Dig (August 28, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.truth-out.org/news/item/41753-trump-s-arpaio-pardon-signals-to-white-supremacists-i-ve-got-your-back
9. Jake Johnson, “Since Trump’s Election, 20 States Have Moved to Criminalize Dissent.” CommonDreams (June 20, 2017), accessed February 20, 2018: www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/20/trumps-election-20-states-have-moved-criminalize-dissent; Ariel Malka and Yphtach Lelkes, “In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump proposed it,” Washington Post (August 10, 2017), accessed February 20, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/10/in-a-new-poll-half-of-republicans-say-they-would-support-postponing-the-2020-election-if-trump-proposed-it/?utm_term=.72f-915936b5c
10. Juan González, “On Tyranny: Yale Historian Timothy Snyder on How the U.S. Can Avoid Sliding into Authoritarianism,” Democracy Now! (May 30, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2017/5/30/on_tyranny_yale_historian_timothy_snyder
11. Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, ed. & trans. Quintin Hoare & Geoffrey Nowell Smith (New York: International Publishers, 1971), p. 275–76.
12. See, for instance, James K. Galbraith, Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016).
13. Zygmunt Bauman, “Symptoms in search of an object and name,” The Great Regression, ed. Heinrich Geiselberger (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017), pp. 13, 25.
14. Ibid., p. 14.
15. “Full text of Viktor Orbán’s speech at Bile Tusnad (Tusnádfürd) of 26 July 2014,” The Budapest Beacon (July 29, 2014). Accessed February 20, 2018: budapestbeacon.com/public-policy/full-text-of-viktor-orbans-speech-at-baile-tusnad-tusnadfurdo-of-26-july-2014/10592
16. Pankaj Mishra, “Politics in the age of resentment: the dark legacy of the Enlightenment,” in The Great Regression, ed. Heinrich Geiselberger (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017), p. 105.
17. Heinrich Geiselberger, ed., The Great Regression (London: Polity Press, 2017).
18. Arjun Appadurai, “Democracy Fatigue,” in Heinrich Geiselberger, ed., The Great Regression (London: Polity Press, 2017), pp. 1–2.
19. Paul Mason, “Trump could be out of office within a year—but the US’s problems would be just beginning,” The Guardian (August 7, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/07/trump-out-in-year-usa-problems-just-beginning-paul-mason?CMP=fb_gu
20. See, for instance, his attack on affirmative action in favor of White nationalist views of themselves as aggrieved victims of racist discrimination. Christopher Ingraham, “White Trump voters think they face more discrimination than blacks. The Trump administration is listening,” Washington Post (August 2, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/02/white-trump-voters-think-they-face-more-discrimination-than-blacks-the-trump-administration-is-listening/?utm_term=.614098d6ef86
21. Carol Anderson, “The Politics of White Resentment,” New York Times (August 5, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/08/05/opinion/sunday/white-resentment-affirmative-action.html?_r=0
22. Arjun Appadurai, “Democracy Fatigue,” in Heinrich Geiselberger, ed., The Great Regression (London: Polity Press, 2017), pp. 8–9.
23. Mike Lofgren, “Maybe This Is How Democracy Ends.” Alter-Net (January 11, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.alternet.org/election-2016/how-democracy-ends
24. Jessical Silver-Greenberg, “Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Action Suit,” New York Times, October 25, 2017. Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/business/senate-vote-wall-street-regulation.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fjessica-silver-greenberg&action=click&contentCollection=undefined®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection
25. John Nichols, “Trump’s Base of Support is Collapsing,” The Nation (August 4, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.thenation.com/article/trumps-base-of-support-has-almost-entirely-collapsed/
26. David Horowitz, The Art of Political War for Tea Parties (Dallas, TX: Spence Publishing, 2000).
27. The Data Team, “Daily Chart Attitudes Towards the Mainstream Media Take an Unconstitutional Turn,” The Economist (August 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/08/daily-chart-0
28. Ariel Malka and Yphtach Lelkes, “In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump proposed it,” Washington Post (August 10, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/10/in-a-new-poll-half-of-republicans-say-they-would-support-postponing-the-2020-election-if-trump-proposed-it/?utm_term=.dd228da2cd10
29. Bess Levin, “Mike Pence Spent Nearly $250,000 to Walk Out of a Football Game,” Vanity Fair (October 9, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/mike-pence-colts-game
CHAPTER EIGHT
1. David Broder, “Being Anti-Trump Isn’t Enough,” Jacobin, No. 24 (Winter 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/being-anti-trump-isnt-enough
2. For an informative analysis of the merging of neoliberalism and right-wing populism, see Wendy Brown, “Apocalyptic Populism,” Eurozine (September 5, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.eurozine.com/apocalyptic-populism/
3. Nancy Fraser, “Progressive neoliberalism versus reactionary populism: a Hobson’s choice,” The Great Regression, ed. Heinrich Geiselberger (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017), pp. 41–42.
4. David Graeber, The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement (New York: Random House, 2013), pp. 281–282.
5. Chris Hedges, “Donald Trump’s Greatest Allies Are the Liberal Elites,” Truthdig (March 7, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.truthdig.com/report/item/donald_trumps_greatest_allies_are_the_liberal_elites_20170305
6. Katie Anders, “Have Democrats lost 900 seats in state legislatures since Obama has been president?” Punditfact (January 25, 2015). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/jan/25/cokie-roberts/have-democrats-lost-900-seats-state-legislatures-o/
7. See, for instance, Chuck Schumer, “A Better Deal for American Workers,” New York Times (July 24, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/opinion/chuck-schumer-employment-democrats.html?_r=0
8. Anthony DiMaggio, “‘A Better Deal’? Dissecting the Democrats’ ‘Populist’ Turn in Rhetoric and Reality,” CounterPunch (July 28, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/28/a-better-deal-dissecting-the-democrats-populist-turn-in-rhetoric-and-reality/
9. Eric Cheyfitz, “A ‘Better Deal’ for American Workers?” Counter-Punch (August 1, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/01/a-better-deal-for-american-workers/
10. Andrew J. Bacevich, “Slouching Toward Mar-a-Lago: The Post-Cold-War Consensus Collapses Tuesday,” Truthout (August 08, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/41541-slouching-toward-mar-a-lago-the-post-cold-war-consensus-collapses
11. Mark Penn and Andrew Stein, “Back to the Center, Democrats.” New York Times (July 6, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/opinion/center-democrats-identity-politics.html?_r=0
12. Ibid. Mark Penn and Andrew Stein.
13. Leonard Steinhorn, “How Did Democrats Become the Party of Elites?” Bill Moyers and Company (July 12, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: billmoyers.com/story/how-did-democrats-become-the-party-of-elites/
14. Jonathan Chait, “How ‘Neoliberalism’ Became the Left’s Favorite Insult of Liberals,” New York Magazine (July 16, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/how-neoliberalism-became-the-lefts-favorite-insult.html. This position has been definitively criticized in Thomas Frank, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? (New York: Picador, 2017).
15. Leah Hunt-Hendrix, “The Wrong Way to Rebuild the Democratic Party,” Politico Magazine (February 24, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/democrats-progressives-new-leaders-david-brock-third-way-214811
16. For a rebuttal of Chait’s argument, see Mike Konczal, “‘Neoliberalism’ isn’t an empty epithet. It’s a real, powerful set of ideas,” Vox (July 18, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/18/15992226/neoliberalism-chait-austerity-democratic-party-sanders-clinton
17. See, for instance, Thomas Frank, “How Dems Created ‘Liberalism of the Rich.’” Bill Moyers and Company (March 29, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: billmoyers.com/story/the-blue-state-model/
18. Ian Swanson, “Obama says he’d be seen as moderate Republican in the 1980s,” The Hill (December 14, 2012). Accessed February 20, 2018: thehill.com/policy/finance/272957-obama-says-his-economic-policies-so-mainstream-hed-be-seen-as-moderate-republican-in-1980s
19. Ibid., Jonathan Chait, “How ‘Neoliberalism’ Became the Left’s Favorite Insult of Liberals.”
20. Ibid.
21. Michael Corcoran, “Thousands of Bernies? Progressive Groups Aim to Build a Majority From the Bottom Up,” Truthout (August 6, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.truth-out.org/news/item/41518-thousands-of-bernies-progressive-groups-aim-to-build-a-majority-from-the-bottom-up
22. See, for instance, Les Leopold, “6 Reasons Why Resisting Trump Is Not Enough: Here’s How We Might Be Able to Save Our Democracy,” AlterNet (January 1, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.alternet.org/election-2016/challenge-our-hands-save-democracy-lot-bigger-trump
23. Nancy Fraser, “Progressive neoliberalism versus reactionary populism: a Hobson’s choice,” The Great Regression, ed. Heinrich Geiselberger. (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017), p. 46.
24. Ibid. Fraser, p. 44.
25. Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Trying to Build in the Rubble of Neoliberalism” TruthOut (July 6, 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/41175-trying-to-build-in-the-rubble-of-neoliberalism-michelle-alexander-and-naomi-klein-on-bringing-movements-together-in-the-trump-era
26. Rabbi Michael Lerner, “Overcoming Trump-ism: A New Strategy for Progressives,” Tikkun Magazine, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Winter 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.tikkun.org/nextgen/overcoming-trump-ism-a-new-strategy-for-progressives
27. Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis. Liquid Evil (Cambridge,: Polity Press, 2016), p. 88
28. William J. Barber, II, “We are witnessing the birth pangs of a Third Reconstruction: We need a moral movement to create change,” Think Progress (December 15, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: thinkprogress.org/rev-barber-moral-change-1ad2776df7c#.4h0jv9rzt
29. David Harvey, “Neoliberalism Is a Political Project,” Jacobin (July 23, 2016). Accessed February 20, 2018: www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/
30. Katrina Forrester, “Libidinal Politics,” Harper’s Magazine (February 2017). Accessed February 20, 2018: harpers.org/archive/2017/02/trump-a-resisters-guide/5/
31. For a brilliant analysis of the merging of identity politics and a broader struggle for a radical democracy, see Robin D.G. Kelley, “After Trump,” Boston Review (November 15, 2016), accessed February 20, 2018: bostonreview.net/forum/after-trump/robin-d-g-kelley-trump-says-go-back-we-say-fight-back; Robin D.G. Kelley, “Births of a Nation,” Boston Review (March 6, 2017), accessed February 20, 2018: bostonreview.net/race-politics/robin-d-g-kelley-births-nation
CHAPTER NIINE
1. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” American Rhetoric, n.d. Accessed February 27, 2018: www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
2. Bobby Seale, Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers (New York: Harry N. Abrams Publisher, 2016); Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr., Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016).
3. Keenaga-Yamahtta Taylor, “The Double Standard of Justice,” From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Chicago: Haymarket, 2016).
4. See, for instance, Joan Pedro-Carañana and Simona Rentea, “Glimpse into a Key Party Debate: Deciding the Future of Podemos,” Open Democracy (February 5, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/joan-pedro-cara-ana-simona-rentea/glimpse-into-key-party-debate-deciding-future-o
5. Lacino Hamilton, “This Is Going to Hurt,” The New Inquiry (April 12, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: thenewinquiry.com/this-is-going-to-hurt/
6. Les Leopold, “Wanted: A Massive Education, Organizing Drive and Progressive Vision to Vanquish Trump,” CommonDreams (June 3, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/03/wanted-massive-education-organizing-drive-and-progressive-vision-vanquish-trump
7. See, for instance, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (New York: King Legacy, 2010); John J. Ansbro, Martin Luther King Jr.: Nonviolent Strategies and Tactics for Social Change (New York: Madison Books, 2000); Vaclav Havel, et al., The Power of the Powerless (New York: Routledge, 1985); Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr., Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016); Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy (New York: The New Press, 2012).
8. One commentary on this issue can be found in Ira Chermus, “Trump, a Symptom of What? A Radical Message from a Half-Century Ago,” Truthout (April 17, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.truthout.org/opinion/item/40239-trump-a-symptom-of-what-a-radical-message-from-a-half-century-ago
9. Gregg LaGambina interviews Javier Marías, “The World Is Never Just Politics: A Conversation with Javier Marías,” Los Angeles Review of Books (February 9, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: lareviewofbooks.org/article/conversation-javier-marias/
10. On DeVos’s incompetence and racist understanding of history, see Anthony DiMaggio, “DeVos and the ‘Free Lunch’ Flimflam: Orwell, Neofeudalism, and the Destruction of the Welfare State,” CounterPunch (March 7, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/07/devos-and-the-free-lunch-flimflam-orwell-neofeudalism-and-the-destruction-of-the-welfare-state/
11. Jelani Cobb, “Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and the Misuse of American History,” The New Yorker (March 8, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/ben-carson-donald-trump-and-the-misuse-of-american-history
12. Ibid.
13. Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000), pp. 145–146.
14. João Biehl, Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005), p. 10.
15. Cited in Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément, The Newly Born Woman, trans. Betsy Wing, Theory and History of Literature Series, Volume 24 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), p. ix.
16. Samantha Rose Hill, “American Politics and the Crystallization of Totalitarian Practices,” Medium (December 16, 2016). Accessed February 27, 2018: medium.com/quote-of-the-week/american-politics-and-the-crystallization-of-totalitarian-practices-464e1f02f514#.fyuncour9
17. Jeffrey St. Clair, “Fools on the Hill: Trump and Congress,” Counter-Punch (March 3, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/fools-on-the-hill-trump-and-congress/
18. The classic commentary on politics as show business can be found in Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Penguin Books, 1985, 2005).
19. Robin D.G. Kelley, “After Trump,” Boston Review (November 15, 2016). Accessed February 27, 2018: bostonreview.net/forum/after-trump/robin-d-g-kelley-trump-says-go-back-we-say-fight-back
20. Ballotpedia, “State Legislatures Project” (January 2018). Accessed February 27, 2018: ballotpedia.org/State_legislative_special_elections,_2017
21. Michael Lerner, The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right (New York: HarperOne, 2007).
22. On this issue, see “Introduction,” in Peter A. Hall and Michele Lamont, eds., Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture affect Health (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 1–22.
23. Jennifer Silva, Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 16.
24. This issue is taken up in great detail in Michael Lerner, “Overcoming Trump-ism: A New Strategy for Progressives,” Tikkun (January 31, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.tikkun.org/nextgen/overcoming-trump-ism-a-new-strategy-for-progressives.
25. Lerner, “Overcoming Trump-ism”
CONCLUSION
1. Some of the more recent books on resistance include: Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017); Charles Derber, Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times (New York: Routledge, 2017); Henry A. Giroux, The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism (New York: Routledge, 2017); Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2017); Bill Ayers, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto (Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2016); Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2016).
2. Judith Shulevitz, “Year One: Resistance Research,” The New York Review of Books (November 9, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/11/09/year-one-resistance-research/
3. Brad Evans, “Humans in Dark Times,” New York Times (February 23, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/opinion/humans-in-dark-times.html
4. Jon Wells, “Steeltown Sanctuary: Hamilton Is among the Few ‘Sanctuary Cities’ in Canada,” The Hamilton Spectator (February 24, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.thespec.com/news-story/7158445-steel-town-sanctuary-hamilton-is-among-the-few-sanctuary-cities-in-canada/
5. Brit McCandless, “Seeking sanctuary in the face of deportation,” CBSNews.com (May 21, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.cbsnews.com/news/seeking-sanctuary-in-the-face-of-deportation/
6. Theo Anderson, “Cities Go Rogue Against Trump and the Radical Right,” In These Times (February 23, 2016). Accessed February 27, 2018: inthesetimes.com/article/19895/sanctuary-cities-resistance-trump
7. See, for instance, David Rosen, “Popular Insurgencies: Reshaping the Political Landscape,” CounterPunch (March 21, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/21/popular-insurgencies-re-shaping-the-political-landscape/. For an important liberal analysis of the rise in power of cities to challenge the excesses of neoliberal capitalism, see Benjamin J. Barber, If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014).
8. Cited in Ibid. Theo Anderson, “Cities Go Rogue Against Trump and the Radical Right.”
9. Allen Colbern, “Sanctuaries for ‘Illegals’ have historically been good for American Democracy,” Politics of Color (September 21, 2015). Accessed February 27, 2018: politicsofcolor.com/sanctuaries-for-illegals-have-historically-been-good-for-american-democracy/
10. Václav Benda. “The Parallel ‘Polis,’” in Civic Freedom in Central Europe: Voices from Czechoslovakia (Palgrave Macmillan, 1991: Cambridge, UK), pp 35–41.
11. See Barbara Falk, “Between past and future,” Eurozine (May 26, 2011). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.eurozine.com/between-past-and-future/
12. The Shutdown Collective, “To Halt the Slide into Authoritarianism, We Need a General Strike,” Truthout (February 11, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.truth-out.org/news/item/39449-to-halt-the-slide-into-authoritarianism-we-need-a-general-strike
13. Salvador Hernandez and Adolfo Flores, “Churches Are Readying Homes and Underground Railroads to Hide Immigrants from Deportation under Trump,” BuzzFeed News (February 25, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.buzzfeed.com/salvadorhernandez/sanctuary-churches-v-trump-deportation-mandate?utm_term=.ouDAy5Rgq#.dvbXM8Dzb
14. Theo Anderson, “How the Left’s Long March Back Will Begin in the States,” In These Times (February 6, 2017), accessed February 27, 2018: inthesetimes.com/article/19867/how-the-lefts-long-march-back-will-begin-in-the-states; Katie Klabusich, “States and Cities Push Back on Reproductive Health Attacks Saturday,” Truthout (March 04, 2017), accessed February 27, 2018: www.truth-out.org/news/item/39710-states-and-cities-push-back-on-reproductive-health-attacks
15. Juan González, “Immigrants Fighting for Sanctuary Cities and Campuses to Protect Millions from Trump Deportation Push,” Democracy Now! (November 22, 2016). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.democracynow.org/2016/11/22/immigrants_lead_push_for_sanctuary_cities
16. Sara M. Evans and Harry C. Boyte, Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change in America (New York: Harper and Row, 1986). See also Harry C. Boyte, “Free Spaces Can Help Us Fight Trumpism,” The Nation (December 5, 2016). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.thenation.com/article/free-spaces-can-help-us-fight-trumpism/. Also, see Francesca Polletta, “‘Free Spaces’ in Collective Action,” Theory and Society Vol. 38. (1999), pp. 1–38.
17. Robin D.G. Kelley, “Black Study, Black Struggle,” Boston Review (March 7, 2016). Accessed February 27, 2018: bostonreview.net/forum/robin-d-g-kelley-black-study-black-struggle
18. Ibid. Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny.
19. On Lerner’s Global Marshall Plan, see: Rabbi Michael Lerner, Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, and Cornel West, “The Global Marshall Plan,” (Berkley: Network of Spiritual Progressives, 3107), accessed February 27, 2018: www.spiritualprogressives.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Global-Marshall-Plan-1.pdf; also, see Rabbi Michael Lerner, “Overcoming Trump-ism: A New Strategy for Progressives,” Tikkun (Winter 2017), accessed February 27, 2018: www.tikkun.org/nextgen/overcoming-trump-ism-a-new-strategy-for-progressives.
20. George Lakoff, “Ten Points for Democracy Activists,” George Lakoff Blog (February 10, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: georgelakoff.com/2017/02/10/ten-points-for-democracy-activists/
21. Bill Quigley, “Ten Examples of Direct Resistance to Stop Government Raids,” CounterPunch (February 22, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/22/ten-examples-direct-resistance-stop-government-raids
22. William J. Barber, II, “We are witnessing the birth pangs of a Third Reconstruction: We need a moral movement to create change,” Think Progress (December 15, 2016), accessed February 27, 2018: thinkprogress.org/rev-barber-moral-change-1ad2776df7c#.4h0jv9rzt; Laurie Goodstein, “Religious Liberals Sat Out of Politics for 40 Years. Now They Want in the Game,” New York Times (June 10, 2017), accessed February 27, 2018: www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/us/politics/politics-religion-liberal-william-barber.html?_r=0
23. Theo Anderson, “How the Left’s Long March back will begin in the States,” In These times (February 6, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: inthesetimes.com/article/19867/how-the-lefts-long-march-back-will-begin-in-the-states
24. See, for instance, the brilliant: Robin D.G. Kelley, “Black Study, Black Struggle,” Boston Review (March 7, 2016). Accessed February 27, 2018: bostonreview.net/forum/robin-d-g-kelley-black-study-black-struggle
25. Forum, “Trump: A Resister’s Guide,” Harper’s Magazine (February 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: harpers.org/archive/2017/02/trump-a-resisters-guide/
26. See, for instance, Henry A. Giroux, Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (Chicago: Haymarket, 2014); Henry Heller, The Capitalist University (London: Pluto Press, 2016).
27. See, for instance, ibid., Henry A. Giroux.
28. Harvey J. Kaye, “Who Says It Can’t Happen Here?” Bill Moyers (February 27, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: billmoyers.com/story/says-cant-happen/
29. Chris Hedges, “Donald Trump’s Greatest Allies Are the Liberal Elites,” Truthdig (March 7, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.truthdig.com/report/item/donald_trumps_greatest_allies_are_the_liberal_elites_20170305
30. Stanley Aronowitz, “Where Is the Outrage?” Situations 5:2 (2014), p. 33.
31. Charles Derber, private correspondence with the author, January 29, 2014.
32. Chris Hedges, “Make America Ungovernable,” Truthdig (February 6, 2017). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.truthdig.com/report/item/make_america_ungovernable_20170205
33. Chris Mooney and Juliet Eilperin, “Trump Transition Says Request for Names of Climate Scientists Was ‘Not Authorized,’” Washington Post (December 14, 2016). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/14/trump-transition-says-request-for-names-of-climate-scientists-was-not-authorized/?utm_term=.76189cb20ebe
34. See, for instance Charles Derber, Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times (New York: Routledge, 2017).
35. Dana Nuccitelli, “This Is Not Normal—Climate Researchers Take to the Streets to Protect Science,” The Guardian (December 16, 2016). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/dec/16/this-is-not-normal-climate-researchers-take-to-the-streets-to-protect-science
36. See Rabbi Michael Lerner, “Overcoming Trump-ism: A New Strategy for Progressives,” Tikkun (Winter 2017), pp. 4–9; Rabbi Michael Lerner, “Yearning for a World of Love and Justice: An Introduction to the Ideas of Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives (NSP),” Tikkun (April 30, 2015). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.tikkun.org/nextgen/yearning-for-a-world-of-love-and-justice-the-worldview-of-tikkun-and-our-network-of-spiritual-progressives
37. Frederick Douglass, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” History as a Weapon (speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852). Accessed February 27, 2018: www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/douglassjuly4.html