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Let Them Eat Tweets

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Politics & Current Events
Unabridged   10 hour(s)
Publication date: 07/07/2020

Let Them Eat Tweets

How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684579266
Digital Download ISBN:9781684579259

Summary

A groundbreaking account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals—and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy.

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Product Description

Does the GOP represent "forgotten" Americans? Or does it represent the superrich?

In Let Them Eat Tweets, bestselling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson offer a definitive answer: the Republican Party serves its plutocratic masters to a degree without precedent in modern global history. Conservative parties, by their nature, almost always side with the rich. But when faced with popular resistance, they usually make concessions, allowing some policies that benefit the working and middle classes. After all, how can a political party maintain power in a democracy if it serves only the interests of a narrow and wealthy slice of society?

Today's Republicans have shown the way, doubling down on a truly radical, elite-benefiting economic agenda while at the same time making increasingly incendiary racial and cultural appeals to their almost entirely white base. Telling a forty-year story, Hacker and Pierson demonstrate that since the early 1980s, when inequality started spiking, extreme tax cutting, union busting, and deregulation have gone hand in hand with extreme race-baiting, outrage stoking, and disinformation. As Hacker and Pierson argue, Trump isn't a break with the GOP's recent past. On the contrary, he embodies its tightening embrace of plutocracy and right-wing extremism.

Author Bio

Jacob S. Hacker is a political scientist at Yale University and coauthor of three books, including the New York Times bestseller Winner-Take-All Politics. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut. Paul Pierson is a political scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, and coauthor of three books, including the New York Times bestseller Winner-Take-All Politics. He lives in Berkeley, California.