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Resisting Trump must begin with an honest accounting of how he came to power.
About the author
\Lance Selfa is a frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review, and writes a column on U.S. politics in Socialist Worker newspaper. He is the author of The Democrats: A Critical History.
Summary
Resisting Trump must begin with an honest accounting of how he came to power.
Foreword
Reviews in the The Guardian, the Nation, Jacobin, Common Dreams, Truthout
Outreach to low wage worker organizers and Fight for Fifteen campaigns, Black Lives Matter, Muslim solidarity groups, antiwar groups, Bernie Sanders supporters.
Featured excerpts in Jacobin magazine, New Politics and The Progressive, both online and in print.
Contributors will be available for radio interviews.
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“To successfully wage political struggles, we must first understand the terrain on which we stand. This collection contains everything we need to understand the world that gave us Trump, and to arm ourselves for the battles to come.”—Sarah Jaffe, author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt.
“This brilliant collection shows how the dismal neoliberalism of the corporate Democrats combined with the dark genius of the right to put a malignantly narcissistic, racist, sexist, and nativist white-nationalist mogul in the White House. The contributors point the way to an independent and genuinely Left politics beyond what contributor Nancy Fraser rightly calls "the Hobson's choice between reactionary populism and progressive neoliberalism.” —Paul Street, author of They Rule: The 1 Percent v. Democracy
Praise for The Democrats:
“Lance Selfa’s The Democrats reveals the many ways in which the establishment Democratic Party has not just dashed progressive hopes over centuries but served as a distraction from the desperately needed business of making real change in this country. Writing dismal history like this is dirty work, but somebody’s got to do it and Selfa’s straight talk actually lifts one’s spirits.”—Laura Flanders, host of The Laura Flanders Show
