Dystopias and Demagogues

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Chapter Sixteen: Matt Gaetz and Incitatus
Qualifications Optional: How Loyalty and Lavish Stables Became the Price of Admission
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Chapter Fifteen: The Cure for the Ills of Democracy
Jane Addams declared that "the cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy." Will we have more or less democracy during Trump's second term?
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Bonus Chapter: The View From My Home This Afternoon
Some Thoughts on the Election
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Chapter Fourteen: The Most Important Question Facing the Nation
Today, the Nation Sits on the Anxious Bench
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Bonus Chapter: Insulting Voters Has a History
And it Hasn't Paid Off
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Chapter Thirteen: Defining Moments
How the Rules for Qualifying to be President Have Been Rewritten in the Trump Era
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Chapter Twelve: Why Your Vote Doesn't Always Count
Coping With A Constitutional Relic: The Problem Presented By The Electoral College
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Chapter Eleven: The Politics of Cultural Despair
Trump’s Loyalists, the Forgotten Americans, and the Legacy of Economic Dislocation
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Dystopias and Demagogues
Dystopias and Demagogues
The United States is embarking on uncharted political waters. My goal is to use history and literature concerning dystopias and demagogues to shed light on this remarkable – and perilous – chapter in our nation’s history.

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