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War on the American Republic - How Liberalism Became Despotism (Hardcover)
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War on the American Republic - How Liberalism Became Despotism (Hardcover)
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Americans often use the words progressive, liberal, and radical
more or less interchangeably without understanding their place in
American history. Kevin Slack describes the distinct aims of the
movements they represent and weighs their consequences for the
American republic. Each of the three movements rejected older
republican principles of governance in favor of an administrative
state, but there were substantial differences between Teddy
Roosevelt's Anglo-Protestant progressive social gospelers, who
battled trusts and curbed immigration; Franklin Roosevelt's and
Lyndon Johnson's secular liberals, who forged a government-business
partnership and promoted a civil rights agenda; and the 1960s
radicals, who protested corporate influence in the Great Society,
liberal hypocrisy on race and gender, and the war in Vietnam. Each
sought to overturn what came before. Following the revolution of
the 1960s, elites on both left and right turned against the
industrial middle class to erect an oligarchy at home and advance
globalization abroad. Each side claimed to serve the interests of
disadvantaged or underrepresented groups. Radicals ensconced
themselves in bureaucracy and academia to advance their vision of
social justice for women and minorities, while neoliberal elites
promoted monopoly finance, open borders, and the outsourcing of
jobs to benefit consumers. The administrative state became a global
American empire, but the neoliberals' economic and military
failures precipitated a crisis of legitimacy. In the "great
awokening" that began under Barack Obama, neoliberal elites,
including establishment conservatives, openly broke with the
populist base of the Republican Party, embraced identity politics,
and used COVID-19 and a myth of insurrection to strip away the
rights of American citizens. Today, an incompetent kleptocracy is
draining the wealthiest and most powerful people in history, thus
eroding the foundations of its own empire.
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