Trump in the White House : tragedy and farce /
In Trump in the White House, John Bellamy Foster places the president and his administration in full historical context. Foster reveals that Trump is merely the endpoint of a stagnating economic system whose liberal democratic sheen has begun to wear thin. Beneath a veneer of democracy, we see the a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Monthly Review Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | In Trump in the White House, John Bellamy Foster places the president and his administration in full historical context. Foster reveals that Trump is merely the endpoint of a stagnating economic system whose liberal democratic sheen has begun to wear thin. Beneath a veneer of democracy, we see the authoritarian rule that oversees decreasing wages, anti-science and climate-change denialism, a dying public education system and expanding prisons and military, all powered by a phony populism seething with centuries of racism that never went away. |
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| Physical Description: | 159 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781583676806 1583676805 9781583676813 1583676813 |