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Republic of Wrath - How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump (Hardcover)
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Republic of Wrath - How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump (Hardcover)
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American politics today is in an uproar: loud, angry, and bitter,
bristling with us-versus-them. This is not exactly new. The history
of our political life is teeming with nastiness, violence,
intolerance, and cheating. Yet we can sense that there is something
genuinely different about the current turmoil. Politics has turned
tribal in an unprecedented way. What changed? The answer, according
to renowned political scientist James Morone, lies in the way
political parties have operated throughout American history. From
the beginning, parties sowed division and discord, but the deepest,
most contentious issues facing our society -- questions about who
we are -- didn't split along partisan lines. So for a time, parties
actually assuaged these conflicts. One side defended slavery but
welcomed immigrants; the other side called for abolition but
harbored deep hostility for Irish, German, and Italian newcomers.
Then, as the United States underwent a series of profound societal
transformations -- from reconstruction, to the explosion of
populism, to the Great Migration, to the Civil Rights movement --
the alignment slowly shifted. African Americans switched sides to
support the Democrats, the party that had fought tooth and nail
against expanding their rights, while the Republicans turned whiter
and more nativist. In this sweeping, revelatory work of political
history, Morone shows how these changes upended the role of
parties, creating a single division that would consume every
debate. Rich with absorbing vignettes, Republic of Wrath explains
our current state of unrest with bracing clarity -- and tells the
story of American politics as we've never heard it before.
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