Book : Let Them Eat Tweets How The Right Rules In An Age Of.

-Titulo Original : Let Them Eat Tweets How The Right Rules In An Age Of Extreme Inequality

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Liveright

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A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceAn “essential” (Jane Mayer) account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy. In Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson argue that despite the rhetoric of Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, and other right-wing “populists,” the Republican Party came to serve its plutocratic masters to a degree without precedent in modern global history. To maintain power while serving the 0.1 percent, the GOP has relied on increasingly incendiary racial and cultural appeals to its almost entirely white base. Calling this dangerous hybrid “plutocratic populism,” Hacker and Pierson show how, over the last forty years, reactionary plutocrats and right-wing populists have become the two faces of a party that now actively undermines democracy to achieve its goals against the will of the majority of Americans. Based on decades of research and featuring a new epilogue about the intensification of GOP radicalism after the 2020 election, Let Them Eat Tweets authoritatively explains the doom loop of tax cutting and fearmongering that defines the Republican Party and reveals how the rest of us can fight back. Review Sharp and thoughtful . . . The most chilling argument in [Jacob S.] Hacker and [Paul] Pierson’s book is that Trump’s rhetoric has focused us on the wrong authoritarian threat. . . . This is the cliff on which American democracy now teeters. The threat isn’t that Donald Trump will carve his face onto Mount Rushmore and engrave his name across the White House. It’s that the awkward coalition that nominated and sustains him will entrench itself, not their bumbling standard-bearer, by turning America into a government by the ethnonationalist minority, for the plutocratic minority. Ezra Klein, VoxWith Let Them Eat Tweets, the political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson have constructed a portrait of the Trumpian moment that, in the book’s professorial way, is as terrifying as those Page 1 accounts of presidential ravings. They meticulously show how the president isn’t a singular presence, but a thoroughly representative one. Hacker and Pierson are two of the most reliable and reliably creative thinkers in their discipline. . . . Persuasively and meticulously argued. Franklin Foer, New York Times Book ReviewHacker and Pierson . . . offer a strong case that the Republican Party’s dependence on its top donors explains much of its trajectory in recent decades, culminating in the rise of Trump. The authors have a knack for synthesizing complicated academic studies and explaining them concisely for popular audiences. . . . Their historical explanation of how the GOP became radicalized raises legitimate concerns that the party, its judicial appointees and its donor class will carry on ‘fomenting tribalism, distorting elections, and subverting democratic institutions, procedures, and norms.’ . . . Those who would resist this development should carefully consider the analysis that Hacker and Pierson lay out in such convincing and depressing detail. Geoffrey Kabaservice, Washington PostJacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson provide a persuasive and insightful explanation of the current extremes of American political polarization:?it is the response to a fundamental and deep problem for conservatives, of how to enlist support for their self-interested economic policies in order?to maintain a plutocratic society that benefits the few. [The authors]?show that the conservative Republican Party’s appeal to nativism and tribalism, while deep rooted in US history, is not inevitable.?There is yet hope for American democracy.?A?must-read for anyone interested in understanding contemporary American politics. Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel laureate, economic sciences?Since Ronald Reagan, Republican presidents have had to reconcile the