Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

Book Overview

In Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson argue that despite the rhetoric of Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, and other right-wing "populists," the Republican Party came to serve its plutocratic masters to a degree without precedent in modern global history. To maintain power while serving the 0.1 percent, the GOP has relied on increasingly incendiary racial and cultural appeals to its almost entirely white...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631499033
• ISBN13: 9781631499036
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"