I recommend reading Jefferson Cowie's Freedom's Dominion too. It is tracing the White backlash to Reconstruction periods where Blacks gain voting rights, like after the Civil war. The Whites call their backlash Redemption, and have an idea of Freedom that places them at the top. I wrote a piece about a lecture Cowie gave this week that t…
I recommend reading Jefferson Cowie's Freedom's Dominion too. It is tracing the White backlash to Reconstruction periods where Blacks gain voting rights, like after the Civil war. The Whites call their backlash Redemption, and have an idea of Freedom that places them at the top. I wrote a piece about a lecture Cowie gave this week that talks about this in context of the current election where he talks about populists winning the presidency, but explains it as either left or right.
I think the biggest divide in America is not the left vs. the right but up vs. down, the rich vs the rest of us. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote and spoke about this.
I recommend reading Jefferson Cowie's Freedom's Dominion too. It is tracing the White backlash to Reconstruction periods where Blacks gain voting rights, like after the Civil war. The Whites call their backlash Redemption, and have an idea of Freedom that places them at the top. I wrote a piece about a lecture Cowie gave this week that talks about this in context of the current election where he talks about populists winning the presidency, but explains it as either left or right.
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/is-populism-the-way-to-go?r=f0qfn
Note to others: Linda's Substack has no paywall.
And she has plenty of pithy, apt observations from Europe.
I think the biggest divide in America is not the left vs. the right but up vs. down, the rich vs the rest of us. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote and spoke about this.