reactionary politics 
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/7/2021
White Backlash is America's Most Destructive Habit
by John S. Huntington and Lawrence Glickman
The authors endorse the term "counterrevolution" for a repeated pattern of political mobilization among White Americans combining distrust of democracy, apocalyptic rhetoric about the effects of racial equality, and the endorsement of antidemocratic and violent means to halt change.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/31/2020
The Next Lost Cause?
by Caroline E. Janney
The South’s mythology glamorized a noble defeat. Trump backers may do the same.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
7/31/2020
The Violence at the Root of the Silent Majority
by Brian Tochterman
As a vigilante film, “Joe” inaugurated a genre that exploded onto screens in the 1970s.
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Madison’s Sorrow Goes Beyond Pompeo's Dinners
by Kevin C. O'Leary
We are stuck with two major parties and when one party abandons the broad liberal-conservative center, the system stops working.
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