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The Rise of Illiberalism (Paperback)
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"How a more positive form of identity politics can restore public
trust in government Illiberalism, Thomas Main writes, is the basic
repudiation of liberal democracy, the very foundation on which the
United States rests. Itsays no to electoral democracy, human
rights, the rule of law, toleration. It is a political ideology
that finds expression in such older right-wing extremist groups as
the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists and more recently among the
Alt-Right and the Dark Enlightenment. There are also left-of-center
illiberal movements, including various forms of communism,
anarchism, and some antifascist movements. The Rise of Illiberalism
explores the philosophical underpinnings of this toxic political
ideology and documents how it has infiltrated the mainstream of
political discourse in the United States. By the earlytwenty-first
century, Main writes, liberal democracy's failure to deal
adequately with social problems created a space illiberal movements
could exploit to promote their particular brands of identity
politics as an alternative. A critical need thus is for what the
author calls "positive identity politics," or a widely shared sense
of community that gives a feelingof equal importance to all sectors
of society. Achieving this goal will, however, be an enormous
challenge. In seeking actionable remedies for the broken political
system of the United States, this book makes a major scholarly
contribution tocurrent debates about the future of liberal
democracy. "
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