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Donald Trump sure seems to love using the anti-immigrant rhetoric the N*zis perfected. And there is a terrifying point to it all: White supremacy is under threat, and Republicans must protect it by any means necessary.

It's at the heart of a new book by Ari Berman called Minority Rule. And it is a damning picture of how Republicans rely on white supremacy to entrench their rule—even if a majority of Americans disagree with them. Berman explains how it all dates back to the birth of American democracy when the Founding Fathers created political institutions within a system that concentrated power in the hands of an elite, propertied, white male minority. More than 200 years later, the series of compromises the founders made have increasingly vested the majority of political power in the hands of a minority of the population. This reactionary conservative white minority is seeking to entrench and hold onto power through a wide variety of anti-democratic means.

The book is out now here:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

Find an exclusive excerpt of the book here:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/...

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