Why I’m So Mad at the Democratic Party.
Why the Democratic Party’s promise of “restoration” misses the mark; how decades of economic crises reshaped American politics, and why returning to center means chasing a target that keeps moving right. One side built a durable monument to white nationalist capitalism while the other became its world-class pit crew. The fight isn’t about competence or committee chairs—it’s about whether Democrats can offer an actual vision for the future instead of just patching up the damage Republicans leave behind.
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- Kurt Andersen: Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
- Jane Mayer: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
- Chris Hedges: Death of the Liberal Class
- Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- Mehrsa Baradaran: The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
- Jeff Sharlet: The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
- Nancy MacLean: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
- Michelle Alexander: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- Professor Thomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Karl Marx: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
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