CONTENTS

Foreword by George Yancy

Introduction: Staring into the Authoritarian Abyss

1.   America’s Nightmare: Remembering Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World

2.   Authoritarianism and the Legacy of Fascist Collaboration

3.   Beyond the Politics of Incivility

4.   The Culture of Cruelty in Trump’s America

5.   The Politics of Disposability in the Age of Disasters

6.   State Violence and the Scourge of White Nationalism

7.   Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville

8.   Death of the Democratic Party

9.   Toward a Politics of Ungovernability

Conclusion: Democracies in Exile

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

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