S2 Book Club #1: Minority Rule by Ari Berman (Ch. 1-3)
The hosts launch season two of the Propaganda Loves You Book Club with Ari Berman’s Minority Rule, covering the prologue and chapters 1–3 (“Fear of a White Minority,” “Laboratory for Oligarchy,” “The Fear of Democracy,” and “The New Nullification”). They discuss how the book traces backlash to the civil rights era and the Voting Rights Act and argue the U.S. was never a pure democracy, citing anti-democratic structures like the Senate, Electoral College, gerrymandering, and the capped House. They connect elite fear of majority rule to founders’ class interests, quote Thurgood Marshall’s…
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