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The Rise of Christian Nationalism

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The Rise and Fall of the American Working Class

The American working class became increasingly impoverished by Reaganism. The growing national prosperity pie that had once seemed unlimited quickly became perceived as a zero sum game in the post Reagan era. Tom Hartman writes white men thought if they could just knock out half the population, women being 51%, black people being 15%, then there would be more of the pie to split amongst themselves.

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