I start to be a fan of Public Books. The second book I just finished to read is Antidemocracy in America
Where to start? It's a beautiful book, and what I read created me a great sufferance.
President Trump is the son of these times; populistic times. Citizens can't find answer in the establishment and the so-called "elite" and so they vote for a populist candidate. Because of wrong choices made in the past by other politicians.
Trump wouldn't never been elected if times would have been different, more happy, cheerful and plenty of good answers.
Three wives,so a divorced man, when in the past candidates couldn't run anymore for the Presidency if they had cheated their wife also once, strong opinions regarding women, sex and power, Trump received anyway wagons of votes also from women.
Being business man, he acts as a business man also in office; and he has a a great ego.
President Trump is a weird creature, in grade of capturing the votes of suprematists, white ones, people anti-semitic and racists.
Not only: his policy of anti-immigration has caused a lot of chaos and sufferance, let's think at all that children divided maybe forever by their families, or the ban established against some countries considered nests of terrorists.
His position regarding foreign policy remains embarassing, like also what he is creating everyday in the domesticity of his country.
Knowledge and education for Trump are not important and his opinion of public schools remain poor as remarked; Trump doesn't think that environment, climate change are priorities. He doesn't mind of scientists, he doesn't appreciate who, in various fields of knowledge try in a way or in another to bettering this world.
His lies, admit contributors in this book are many: media are constantly telling lies, everything is wrong; the truth just the one he tells to his electorate.
Twitter became with the time the most crucial instrument of communication of the President, more important than his briefings with reporters.
The ObamaCare, a first temptative of a different health system, more human has been deleted.
Teaching, remarks in a chapter a contributor is becoming always more difficult in the age of Trumpism, because it's difficult to explain rationally what it is going on at various levels.
The country wanted by President Trump is extremely divided; people voted him in search of answers, because too unsecure of their future. This one is the certainty but who knows if all these people found answers or their personal situation is the same one of three years ago.
In the USA there is a heavy air. Old phantoms that people thought buried forever as anti-semitism, are re-starting to take some shape. You will read a vivid analysis of the situation starting from the 1930s.
Racism is incresead, thanks to the messages spread by the President and the anxiety regarding the wall he wants to build.
The USA remains a country of immigrations. Realistically the only real citizens of the USA and entire America were the Native Americans ones. Killed and dilaniated by the arrival of Europeans.
A beautiful book this one divided in three sections: Part I. The crisis: where we are. Part II. The Collapse: How We Got Here. Part III. The Solutions: What We Can Do.
Written with extreme clarity, Antidemocracy in America is for everyone, for understanding the moment, but also the past; and for trying to see a different future where people will be more united.
I thank Columbia University Press for the physical copy of this book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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