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SUMMARY:Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequ
 ality
DESCRIPTION:Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson - Let them Eat Tweets: How the
  Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality. A groundbreaking account of 
 the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing p
 opulist appeals—and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy. 
 The Republican Party appears to be divided between a tax-cutting old guard
  and a white-nationalist vanguard—and with Donald Trump’s ascendance\,
  the upstarts seem to be winning. Yet how are we to explain that\, under T
 rump\, the plutocrats have gotten almost everything they want\, including 
 a huge tax cut for corporations and the wealthy\, regulation-killing execu
 tive actions\, and a legion of business-friendly federal judges? Does the 
 GOP represent “forgotten” Americans? Or does it represent the superric
 h? In Let Them Eat Tweets\, best-selling political scientists Jacob S. Hac
 ker and Paul Pierson offer a definitive answer: the Republican Party serve
 s its plutocratic masters to a degree without precedent in modern global h
 istory. Conservative parties\, by their nature\, almost always side with t
 he rich. But when faced with popular resistance\, they usually make conces
 sions\, allowing some policies that benefit the working and middle classes
 . After all\, how can a political party maintain power in a democracy if i
 t serves only the interests of a narrow and wealthy slice of society? Toda
 y’s Republicans have shown the way\, doubling down on a truly radical\, 
 elite-benefiting economic agenda while at the same time making increasingl
 y incendiary racial and cultural appeals to their almost entirely white ba
 se. 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. Instead of responding to 
 the real challenges facing voters\, the Republican Party offers division a
 nd distraction—most prominently\, in the racist\, nativist bile of the p
 resident’s Twitter feed.
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LOCATION:70 District Square SW \, Washington\, D.C. (United States of Ameri
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