Rebellion

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. Sinclair Lewis The election eight years ago and now the reelection of Donald Trump as the President of the United States has left many people wondering how that happened. Robert Kagan in this book frames that as a batt......more

This book is terrifying. The facts are indisputable to me: our United States were founded by visionaries who thoroughly believed in separation of Church and State, but for our entire history and existence many Americans have ignored that belief. I’m bracing myself for the insanity and upheaval that......more

Kagan starts with the dawn of the country and argues that the framers were liberal in their views about what kind of country they envisioned and traced it throughout our history to the present. But he is very clear that even when the Constitution was written, there were anti-liberals in existence (t......more

Robert Kagan is a distinguished historian and public intellectual on law and politics. His book is a short argument that the antiliberal tendencies apparent in US politics after 2000 and especially with Trump are not unusual or atypical. On the contrary that represent a recent reintroduction of cons......more

I've read countless numbers of books and articles dealing with Trump's (and the MAGA movement's) attraction, but this is the best account by far. Conservative author Robert Kagan asserts it’s not just racism, Christian supremacy, immigration, growing economic inequality, or wokeness, although all of......more