The Point of No Return av Thomas Byrne Edsall

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<p><b>How Donald Trump laid waste to American politics, culture, and social order</b><br><br>After Donald Trump¿s rise to power, after the 2020 presidential election, after January 6, is American politics past the point of no return? <i>New York Times</i> columnist and political reporter Thomas Byrne Edsall fears that the country may be headed over a cliff, arguing that the election of Donald Trump was the most serious threat to the American political system since the Civil War. In this compelling and illuminating book, Edsall documents how the Trump years ravaged the nation¿s politics, culture, and social order. He explains the demographic shifts that helped make Trump¿s election possible, and describes the racial and ethnic conflict, culture wars, rural/urban divide, diverging economies of red and blue states, and the transformation of both the Republican and Democratic parties that have left our politics in a state of permanent hostility.<br><br><i>The Point of No Return</i> brings