US Politics in an Age of Uncertainty
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Haymarket Books, 2
Hendricks family, 61
Herbert, Ulrich, 99
Hindenberg, Paul von, 88–89
Hitler, Adolf, 88–89, 101–2
Hobsbawm, Eric, 92, 101
Hochschild, Arlie Russell, 31
Hogue, Ilyse, 151–52
Holder, Eric, 38
Hollywood, 69, 192
Hollywood Reporter, 35
Holocaust, 99–100
Homeland Security, Department of (DHS), 36, 173–74
ICE. See Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Illinois, 28, 70, 72t, 183
immigrants, 10, 25, 33, 42–43, 171–89. See also under Trump, Donald
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 130, 144, 174–76, 180–81
incarcerations, 3, 67, 87, 123
Independence Party (United Kingdom), 31
Indiana, 8, 17, 71, 72, 73
Inside U.S.A. (Gunther), 81
International Socialist Review, 1, 2, 25, 171
Iowa, 5, 28, 70, 72
Iran, 112, 117, 167, 171
Iraq, 10, 115, 131, 148, 157, 172, 173
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), 157
Islamophobia, 3, 4, 157–70, 181
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire (Kumar), 157
Jackson, Jesse, 8–9, 122
Jacobin, 2, 157
Japanese Americans, 159
Johnson, Lyndon B., 48, 88
Justice, Department of, 38, 61, 126, 137
Kelly, John F., 36
Kentucky, 17, 73, 78–79
Keynesian policies, 39, 94
Kilibarda, Konstantin, 6
Kimmel, Michael, 105–6
KKK. See Ku Klux Klan
Koch family, 71, 73
Koch Industries, 9
Krikorian, Mark, 176
Kuchibhotla, Srinivas, 126, 176
Ku Klux Klan, 68, 125
Kumar, Deepa, 3–4, 157–70, 200
Labor, Department of, 144
Latinos, 9, 33, 127
and poverty, 19, 146
and 2016 elections, 3, 11, 13, 27, 28, 52, 54, 55–56, 58
left (political), 4, 8, 10, 31–33, 43, 62, 85–86, 89, 106, 140–41, 155, 168–69, 188–89, 193, 194–96
Le Pen, Marine, 86, 169
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ), 3, 29–31, 38–39, 42–43, 104, 152–53, 192
Libya, 171
Lilla, Mark, 6
Listen, Liberal! (Frank), 150
Long, Huey, 81
Louisiana, 69, 81
Lukács, Georg, 104
Lynch, Loretta, 38
Lyons, Matthew, 103, 104
MacIver Institute, 72
Mackinac Center, 72, 73
Manchin, Joe, 80
Mann, Michael, 96
Marx, Karl, 91–92
Marxists, 31, 96–97, 104
Mason, Tim, 101
Massachusetts, 67, 115
Matthews, Chris, 145
Mattis, James “Mad Dog,” 37
McCain-Schumer bill, 40–41
McElwee, Sean, 12–13
Medicaid, 38, 41
Medicare, 31, 116–17
Mello, Heath, 151
Memmi, Albert, 164
Mercer, Rebekah, 64–65
Mexico
immigrants from, 173–74, 186–87
and US border, 9
Michigan, 5, 7, 17, 18–19, 28, 61, 67, 70–73
Midwest, 7, 17
voting in, 26, 28, 63, 65–66, 68, 71–72
Miller, Stephen, 125
Milwaukee, 6, 27, 181–82
Minnesota, 66t, 70, 72t
Missouri, 17, 70
Mnuchin, Steven, 36
Moody, Kim, 3, 16, 45–59, 199
Mountain Party, 80
MSNBC, 18
Müller, Jan-Werner, 95–96, 106
Muslims, 3, 10, 33, 42–43, 95, 146, 157–70, 171–73, 180, 194
Nader, Ralph, 48, 49
NAFTA. See North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
NARAL Pro-Choice America, 150
Nation, 33, 56
National Action Network of Michigan, 13
National Front (France), 31, 167, 191
National Immigration Forum, 41
nationalism. See populism
National Organization for Women (NOW), 150, 152
National Review, 62
National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, 160
Native Americans, 18, 19
NATO. See North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Nazism, 88–89, 97, 99–102
neoliberalism, 8–9, 14–18, 86–88, 94, 107, 134, 169, 191–96
continuation under Trump, 37–43
effect on working class, 2, 9, 15–23, 105
under Obama’s administration, 113
New Deal, 192–93
New York, 56, 70, 137–38, 182
New York Times, 22, 64, 73
Nichols, John, 56
Night Comes to the Cumberlands (Caudill), 79
9/11, 10, 158–59, 161, 164, 167
1955 Household Food Consumption Survey, 19–20
Nixon, Richard, 88
Noden, Kirk, 33
No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Chacón), 171
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 16, 39, 40, 166
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 35, 37, 40
North Dakota, 18, 70
NOW See National Organization for Women (NOW)
Obama, Barack, 3, 4, 7, 9, 13–14, 27–28, 51, 52, 128–29, 154, 160–61, 177–79
election of, 112–13
and postpresidency, 82
Obama administration, 3, 37, 38, 87, 112–18, 123–24, 129, 130–31, 133, 177–79
Obamacare. See Affordable Care Act (ACA)
Occupy movement, 43
OECD. See Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 38
Ohio, 5, 28, 50–52, 53, 57, 65, 66t, 70–78, 131
One Nation, 73
O’Reilly, Bill, 144
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 17, 83
The Other America (Harrington), 79
Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike (Smith), 199
Parenti, Christian, 11
Paris, attacks in, 156, 157–59
and climate accord, 39
Party for Freedom (Holland), 168
PATCO. See Professional Air Traffic Controllers’ Organization (PATCO)
PATRIOT Act, 10
Pelosi, Nancy, 43, 177–78
Peña Nieto, Enrique, 188
Pence, Mike, 65, 72
Pennsylvania, 5, 28, 57, 65, 66t, 70–72, 74, 78, 87, 183
Perot, Ross, 31, 49
Philadelphia, 6
Phillips, John Aristotle, 54
Plan Mérida Initiative, 186
Planned Parenthood, 144–46, 147, 150, 153, 157, 160
plant closures, 77t
Policy Review Foundation, 72
Pompeo, Mike, 36
populism, 2, 30–42, 65, 128, 148, 195, 208n17
in Europe, 2, 30–31, 82–83, 86, 95–96, 108
right-wing populism, 1, 2, 85–109
and the Tea Party, 30
Porter, Bernard, 92
Post, Charlie, 3, 25–43, 199
Powell, Enoch, 160, 165
Price, Tom, 36, 144
Priebus, Reince, 34
Priorities US, 13–14
Professional Air Traffic Controllers’ Organization (PATCO), 16
Progressive Caucus, 82
Pruitt, Scott, 36
Puerto Rico, 13
Putin, Vladimir, 39, 69, 196
Puzder, Andrew, 144
Radicals in the Barrio (Chacón), 171
Ratf**kd (Daley), 71
Reagan, Ron
ald, 16–17, 32, 49
Republican Party, 9, 12, 15, 30, 33, 62–64, 70–74, 76t, 78, 107, 130, 133–36, 178–79, 180
and Muslims, 158–62, 165
and Trump’s administration, 34–37, 38, 39, 42
and 2016 election, 26, 27, 29, 46–53, 58–59, 68–69, 80, 111, 112–13
and women’s rights, 64, 111, 144, 145–46
right (political), 8, 62, 113–14, 147, 153
alt-right, 33, 34–35, 61, 64, 78, 125
far right, 96–102, 158, 161, 166–69, 189
right-wing populism, 2, 31–32, 85–109
right-to-work, 38, 72–74, 212n46
Rockefeller family, 61
Roe v. Wade, 61–62, 154
Roithmayr, Daria, 6
Romney, Mitt, 10, 13–14, 28, 50–53, 65–66, 115
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 159
Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius, 135
Ross, Wilbur, 36
Rove, Karl, 71
Russert, Tim, 145
Russia, 35, 36, 37, 39, 130, 166
Russo, John, 68
Rust Belt, 6, 45, 50–54, 63, 66, 70–71, 78, 81, 193–94
Ryan, Paul, 35, 37, 40, 41–42
San Bernardino, California, 157, 158, 163
Sanders, Bernie, 6, 7–8, 10, 22, 58, 62, 69, 80, 82, 118–22, 134–36, 150, 191, 194–96
Saudi Arabia, 118, 172
Schmitt, Carl, 91
Schulte, Elizabeth, 3, 143–55, 200
Schumer, Chuck, 28
Schumpeter, Joseph, 91–92
Sedgwick, Peter, 99–100
SEIU. See Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Selfa, Lance, 2, 111–24, 150, 200
Sensenbrenner-King Bill, 181–83
Service Employees International Union (SEIU), 41, 185
Sessions, Jeff, 35
Silicon Valley, 69
Skocpol, Theda, 31
Smith, Adam, 90–91
Smith, Sharon, 2, 3, 5–23, 199
socialists, 85–86, 103, 108–9
Social Security, 19, 20, 31, 116–17, 193
Somalia, 171
South, US, 17, 65, 78, 80–81
Southern Poverty Law Center, 42, 176
Spencer, Richard, 35, 125
State, Department of, 36, 39, 187
State Policy Network, 72
Steelworkers, 79
Stein, Jill, 66t, 67, 122, 148, 151
Strangers in Their Own Land (Hochschild), 31
Strickland, Ted, 68
Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Smith), 199
Sudan, 172
Supplemental Poverty Measure, 20–21
Supreme Court, US, 13, 65, 69, 144
Sweden, 168 Syria, 10, 172, 173
Taibbi, Matt, 117
Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP), 146
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, 3, 125–41, 200
Tea Party, 29, 30, 37, 40, 41, 72, 78, 96, 107, 116, 179
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (Skocpol; Williamson), 31
Teen Vogue, 143, 147
Texaco, 9
Texas, 67, 69
Tillerson, Rex, 37
Tomasky, Michael, 158, 160
Trans-Pacific Partnership, 39
TRAP. See Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP)
Treasury, Department of, 36, 40
Trotsky, Leon, 2, 31, 96
Truman, Harry, 48
Trumka, Richard, 184–85
Trump, Donald, 37–43, 81–83, 85, 102, 108–9
“America First” foreign policy, 30, 35
and anti-neoliberalism, 25, 191–96
and border security, 9, 39, 171, 173–77, 188
and cabinet appointees, 35–37, 144
election of, 1–4, 5–8, 11–12, 14–15, 25–29, 45–59, 61–70, 74–75, 77–79, 111–12, 123–25, 128–30, 148–49, 191–95
and immigration, 1, 35, 37–43, 64, 78, 82, 88, 98, 157–58, 171–76, 179–85, 188–89
and populism, 2, 25, 31, 33, 83, 126, 128, 148, 195
and women’s rights, 143–49, 153
Trump administration, 2, 4, 10, 22–23, 126–28, 171–72
and Republican Party, 34–37, 39, 42
The Trumpet Shall Sound (Worsley), 74
2016 Employer Health Benefits Survey, 21
UFCW. See United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
UK Independence Party (UKIP), 102
UMW. See United Mine Workers (UMW)
unions, 9, 15–17, 23, 35, 69, 72–73, 94, 118, 184–86, 188–89, 193. See also specific unions
union vote, 31, 38, 46–50, 54–57, 70, 75
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), 185
United Kingdom, 85–86, 102, 108–9, 167–68, 191–92
United Mine Workers (UMW), 79
United Nations Population Fund, 144
United States, 131–33, 192. See also agency; bureau; branch; specific department
and class inequality, 13–15, 105–6, 117, 120
and imperialism, 25, 39, 159, 161, 163, 165–66, 167, 172
invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, 10
population characteristics, 7, 217n2
and voting, 3–4, 5–8, 12–14, 26–29, 46–58, 76t, 77–78, 129–30
United States Refugee Admissions Program, 172
Vargas, Daniela, 175
Vilsack, Tom, 65
von Keyserling, Christopher, 147
Voter Contact Services, 54–55
Voting Rights Act, 13, 69
Walker, Scott, 68, 72–73
Wall Street, 10, 14, 38, 69, 82
“war on terror,” 118, 158–61, 163, 165, 170, 172–73, 186
Washington, DC, 19, 147, 152–53
Washington Post, 14, 28
West Rock Paper Company, 75
West Virginia, 8, 10, 17, 70–73, 80
white working class. See under working class
WikiLeaks, 119, 121
Wilders, Geert, 168, 169
Williams, Charles, 13
Williamson, Vanessa, 31
Wisconsin, 5, 8, 17, 28, 61, 66t, 67, 70–72, 118–19, 183
women, 9, 42–43, 95, 101, 131–32, 140–41
demonstrations after election, 153
economic status of, 22, 31, 105, 127, 129
rights, erosion of, 29, 38, 87, 104, 111, 143–55, 196
and 2016 elections, 3, 61–62, 64–65, 67, 223–24n15
Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital (Smith), 199
Women’s Strike, 43
Wood, Ellen, 90
working class, 4, 5–6, 8, 35, 116–17, 126, 128, 137, 146, 148–49, 184–85
makeup of, 7, 17–23, 131–33
and neoliberalism, 2, 14–23, 195–96
organization of, 102–7
supporters of the political right, 32–33
and 2016 elections, 3–4, 5–6, 10–11, 28–29, 45–59, 150–51
white working class, 2–3, 5–6, 7, 26, 46, 61–83, 87–88
Worsley, Peter, 74
XaXis, 54–55
Yemen, 172, 173
Youngstown, Ohio, 51