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

by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

Book Overview

The Republican Party appears to be divided between a tax-cutting old guard and a white-nationalist vanguard--and with Donald Trump's ascendance, the upstarts seem to be winning. Yet how are we to explain that, under Trump, the plutocrats have gotten almost everything they want, including a huge tax cut for corporations and the wealthy, regulation-killing executive actions, and a legion of business-friendly federal judges? Does the GOP represent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631496840
• ISBN13: 9781631496844
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"