Bernard E. Harcourt, The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own People (New York: Basic Books, 2018) (Harcourt is one of the more intellectually serious American thinkers and writers of his generation. He is the canary in America's political coal mine. Pay attention! From the book jacket: "Militarized police officers armed with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends, political theorist Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradox, in the United States--one that is rooted in the models of counterinsurgency warfare originally developed to suppress anticolonial revolutions and, more recently, to prosecute the war on terror.").
James T. Kloppenberg, Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought (New York: Oxford U. Press, 2016) ("Democracy arose from violence and has never strayed far from it." Id. at 1. "Almost all African Americans who could still vote condemned [President Andrew] Jackson as the head of a party of white supremacy and gravitated toward his enemies." Id. at 594. And Jackson appears to be Trump's president of choice!
