Trump in the White House
Subtitle: Tragedy and Farce
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781583676813
Subjects: Trump, donald, 1946-; United states, politics and government, 2017-; Fascism
Description: In Trump in the White House, John Bellamy Foster places the president and his administration in full historical context. Foster reveals that Trump is merely the endpoint of a stagnating economic system whose liberal democratic sheen has begun to wear thin. Beneath a veneer of democracy, we see the authoritarian rule that oversees decreasing wages, anti-science and climate-change denialism, a dying public education system, and expanding prisons and military--all powered by a phony populism seething with centuries of racism that never went away.