Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It

Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It - Paperback

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Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It - Paperback

Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It - Paperback

by Ari Berman
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"Voting rights journalist Ari Berman has been detailing threats to our democracy for years, and his new book Minority Rule is a timely and essential read. He expertly shows how Republicans are trying to rig our political system--and shares how we can fight back." --Hillary Clinton on X

A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their power--and the movement to stop them.

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. But this crisis didn't begin or end with Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election. 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.

"The will of the people," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1801, "is the only legitimate foundation of any government." But that foundation is crumbling. Some counter-majoritarian measures were deliberately 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.
ISBN9781250371812
Author Ari Berman
PublisherPicador USA
GenreNews & politics
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages384
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It

Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It - Paperback

Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It - Paperback

By Ari Berman

About Ari Berman

Ari Berman is a political correspondent for The Nation and an investigative journalism Fellow at the Nation Institute. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times and Rolling Stone, and he is a frequent commentator on MSNBC and NPR. His first book, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics, was published in 2010. He lives in New York City.

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