The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy
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In the wake of Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election, a deeply reported look inside the conservative movement working to undermine American democracy.
Donald Trump is the second Republican this century to triumph in the Electoral College without winning the popular vote. As Zachary Roth reveals in The Great Suppression, this is no coincidence. Over the last decade, Republicans have been rigging the game in their favor. Twenty-two states have passed restrictions on voting. Ruthless gerrymandering has given the GOP a long-term grip on Congress. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has eviscerated campaign finance laws, boosting candidates backed by big money.
It would be worrying enough if these were just schemes for partisan advantage. But the reality is even more disturbing: a growing number of Republicans distrust the very idea of democracy—and they’re doing everything they can to limit it.
In The Great Suppression, Roth unearths the deep historical roots of this anti-egalitarian worldview, and introduces us to its modern-day proponents: The GOP officials pushing to make it harder to cast a ballot; the lawyers looking to scrap all limits on money in politics; the libertarian scholars reclaiming judicial activism to roll back the New Deal; and the corporate lobbyists working to ban local action on everything from the minimum wage to the environment. And he travels from Rust Belt cities to southern towns to show us how these efforts are hurting the most vulnerable Americans and preventing progress on pressing issues.
A sharp, searing polemic in the tradition of Rachel Maddow and Matt Taibbi, The Great Suppression is an urgent wake-up call about a threat to our most cherished values, and a rousing argument for why we need democracy now more than ever.
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In the wake of Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election, a deeply reported look inside the conservative movement working to undermine American democracy.
Donald Trump is the second Republican this century to triumph in the Electoral College without winning the popular vote. As Zachary Roth reveals in The Great Suppression, this is no coincidence. Over the last decade, Republicans have been rigging the game in their favor. Twenty-two states have passed restrictions on voting. Ruthless gerrymandering has given the GOP a long-term grip on Congress. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has eviscerated campaign finance laws, boosting candidates backed by big money.
It would be worrying enough if these were just schemes for partisan advantage. But the reality is even more disturbing: a growing number of Republicans distrust the very idea of democracy—and they’re doing everything they can to limit it.
In The Great Suppression, Roth unearths the deep historical roots of this anti-egalitarian worldview, and introduces us to its modern-day proponents: The GOP officials pushing to make it harder to cast a ballot; the lawyers looking to scrap all limits on money in politics; the libertarian scholars reclaiming judicial activism to roll back the New Deal; and the corporate lobbyists working to ban local action on everything from the minimum wage to the environment. And he travels from Rust Belt cities to southern towns to show us how these efforts are hurting the most vulnerable Americans and preventing progress on pressing issues.
A sharp, searing polemic in the tradition of Rachel Maddow and Matt Taibbi, The Great Suppression is an urgent wake-up call about a threat to our most cherished values, and a rousing argument for why we need democracy now more than ever. - reviews
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According to this grim investigation, when the Supreme Court struck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, it bolstered ongoing right-wing attempts to limit democracy and voting rights. Roth, an MSNBC reporter, shows how states have restricted early voting and imposed voter ID laws in order to rig the game. As motivation, he pinpoints an underlying conservative “distrust of democracy,” abhorrence of “low-information voters,” and long-standing belief that corporations should, in fact, play a central role in politics. Roth reveals that, in another attempt to “roll back democracy,” there is a sincere movement to repeal the 17th Amendment, which allows for the direct election of senators. The underlying tension in most of these areas comes down to the question of whether to privilege the Constitution over “the will of the people.” Roth explains that once-per-decade redistricting will allow the GOP to dominate American electoral politics for years to come. His book should be required reading for understanding the ultimate goals of American conservatism. Agent: Sarah Burnes, Gernert Company.
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A blistering account of concerted Republican efforts to quiet the political voices of minorities, students, and the poor. Drawing on his work at MSNBC, where he is a national reporter, Roth debuts with a troubling overview of the many ways in which conservatives have worked to restrict voting, hamper campaign finance reform, and gerrymander Congress in the hope of undermining democracy. "Republican politicians and operatives, conservative lawyers, and grassroots activists," writes the author, have been engaged in a "guerrilla effort to maintain a hold on power and fight off a progressive agenda" since President Barack Obama's first election in 2008. They have done so out of a "profound skepticism about the consequences of democracy itself"--a serious belief that many citizens are uninformed, with little stake in their community, and that high-quality, civic-minded voters and corporations know what is best for society. Roth's succinct, well-written report examines disparate events and rulings of the past decade, arguing that conservative efforts to thwart the popular will have gone beyond partisan politics and are dismissive of the democratic process. Since 2006, more than 20 states have created laws making it harder to vote (requiring voter IDs, cutting early voting, etc.). In key decisions, especially the Citizens United case, the Supreme Court has eviscerated campaign finance laws, "ushering in a flood of political money that threatens to warp American democracy beyond recognition." At the local level, conservatives have blocked laws passed by progressive cities and counties that provide paid sick leave and improved wages for food service workers. The author also shows how judicial activism has used "constitutional minutiae" to limit the power of the people. Roth claims that distrust of universal suffrage has deep roots in American society, as evinced in the writings of individuals from historian Frances Parkman, who in 1878 said workmen and foreigners cared "nothing" for the public good, to conservative Samuel Huntington, who complained of an "excess of democracy" 100 years later. Solid reporting combined with engaging stories--even about campaign finance reform.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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