Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People - and the Fight to Resist It
Ari Berman
Apr 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Gary Tiedemann
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The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of a massive demographic and political shift. Ari Berman charts these efforts with sweeping historical research and incisive on-the-ground reporting, chronicling how a wide range of antidemocratic tactics interact with profound structural inequalities in institutions like the Electoral College, the Senate, and the Supreme Court to threaten the survival of representative government in America.
Some counter-majoritarian measures were built into the Constitution, which was designed in part to benefit a small propertied upper class, but they have metastasized to a degree that the Founding Fathers could never have anticipated, undermining the very notion of "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people." Chilling and revelatory, Minority Rule exposes the long history of the conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy that has reached a fever pitch today—while also telling the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts.
Some counter-majoritarian measures were built into the Constitution, which was designed in part to benefit a small propertied upper class, but they have metastasized to a degree that the Founding Fathers could never have anticipated, undermining the very notion of "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people." Chilling and revelatory, Minority Rule exposes the long history of the conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy that has reached a fever pitch today—while also telling the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts.
The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the...
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Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an investigative Journalism Fellow at the Nation Institute. He graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and political science. He has written extensively about American politics, civil rights and the intersection of money and politics. His stories have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian, and he is a frequent political commentator on MSNBC, C-Span and NPR. Berman has also authored several books, including; Give us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, and Herding Donkeys: the Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics.
Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an investigative Journalism Fellow at the Nation Institute. He graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a degree in journalism and political science. He has written extensively about American pol...
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