Here's an pair of book reviews from scholars looking at America today, with an eye towards the past. Meacham, in particular, feels correct. It isn't that Trump is a new phenomenom, it's that we naively assumed we'd outgrown that type of boorish rube bumper. The Fallows' book sounds like it fails to grapple with the creation of this profound rural/urban split that as much as anything aside from age defines the polarization of our times.
Anyway, interesting reading and happy Mother's Day.
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