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5. What Does “Democracy” Even Mean, And Why Conservatives Don’t Want to Be Conservatives Anymore (Oh, and the meeting of white supremacists at Mar-a-Lago)
Is This Democracy
Reactionary Counter Mobilization
The term backlash is often used to describe what's happening on the right. Thomas says we should use it less and be more skeptical about its associations. He argues that reactionaries are actively mobilizing, deliberately participating in a political project of preventing America from becoming an egalitarian democracy.
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