A very interesting and very depressing read from one of my current favourite authors, who, inexplicably seems to number our Jonny Clarke among the valued people she consults on American history. Depressing, but not the half of it, as the book was written long before Trump was nominated, and the Tea Party isn't even mentioned. It's a history of the cyclical nature of the Republican party, from a party of equality of opportunity seeking to guard ordinary Americans from wealthy elites (those great Presidents Lincoln, T Roosevelt and Ike), to the in-between party of power held by the wealthy to benefit the wealthy, using the rhetoric of anti-communism, anti-socialism, Americanism, etc allied with racism, homophobia, nationalism and any other tricks required to hold on to power.
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