Stakes - 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy (Kuttner Robert (Brandeis University))(Pevná vazba) - diskuze

The 2020 presidential election will determine the very survival of American democracy. To restore popular faith in government--and win the election--Democrats need to nominate and elect an economic progressive. The Stakes explains how the failure of the economy to serve ordinary Americans opened the door to a demagogic president, and how democracy can still be taken back from Donald Trump.Either the United States continues the long slide into the arms of the bankers and corporate interests and the disaffection of working Americans--the course set in the past half century by Republican and Democratic presidents alike--or we elect a progressive Democrat in the mold of FDR. At stake is nothing less than the continued success of the American experiment in liberal democracy. That success is dependent on a fairer distribution of income, wealth, and life changes --and a
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