Minority Rule: The Rightwing Attack On The Will Of The Peopleand The Fight To Resist It,New

A riveting account of the decadeslong effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench their powerand the movement to stop them.The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority. But this crisis didnt begin or end with Donald Trumps attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Through voter suppression, election subversion, gerrymandering, dark money, the takeover of the courts, and the whitewashing of history, reactionary white conservatives have strategically entrenched power in the face of a massive demographic and political shift. Ari Berman charts these efforts with sweeping historical research and incisive ontheground reporting, chronicling how a wide range of antidemocratic tactics interact with profound structural inequalities in institutions like the Electoral College, the Senate, and the Supreme Court to threaten the survival of representative government in America.The will of the people, wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1801, is the only legitimate foundation of any government. But that foundation is crumbling. Some countermajoritarian measures were deliberately built into the Constitution, which was designed in part to benefit a small propertied upper class, but they have metastasized to a degree that the Founding Fathers could never have anticipated, undermining the very notion of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Chilling and revelatory, Minority Rule exposes the long history of the conflict between white supremacy and multiracial democracy that has reached a fever pitch todaywhile also telling the inspiring story of resistance to these regressive efforts.