Contents

1 October 29, 2018: A Crisis at Hand, a Nation Consumed

2 “The Country That We Want to Live In”

3 “Not a Problem Individuals Can Solve”

4 “You Don’t Have the Right to Tell an Oil Company No”

5 Radical Corrective Streak

6 The Furious Paper War and the Direction of the Nation

7 Soon to Be Disrupted by Wind and Rain

8 “The Other Side of the So-Called ‘End of History’”

9 November 2018: Doubling Down on Backward

10 Crashing the Official Narrative

11 The Zenith of Ridiculous

12 A Dislocation of the Soul

13 “I Will Be with You in the Streets”

14 “The Constitutional Question of This Century”

15 White Noise in a Land That Doesn’t Care

16 November 4, 2019: Purposeful Procession

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

APPENDIX: About the Youth Plaintiffs

ENDNOTES

INDEX