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REBELLION - ROBERT KAGAN GEBUNDEN

'The transformation of the US into an autocracy has advanced. By 2024  it might be irreversible
[and] will change almost everything in the world. Nobody has outlined this danger more
compellingly than Robert Kagan.' - Martin Wolf  Financial Times A chilling and clear-eyed
warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radicalization of the
Republican Party  from a leading historian and intellectual The 2024 election could be the last
free election held in a unified America. So warns Robert Kagan in this brilliant and terrifying
analysis of the perilous state of democracy in the United States today. If Donald Trump loses
the upcoming election  as he did in 2020  but refuses to accept the result  as he also did in
the last election  he is likely to call on his millions of followers to repudiate the election
results. It will be a short step from there to Republican-dominated states rejecting the
legitimacy of the federal government and effectively seceding. The United States at that point
will cease to be united  with grave consequences for both Americans and the world. In Rebellion
Kagan dives deeper than the op-eds and think pieces to explore the historical forces that have
brought us to this moment-in particular the long history of opposition to liberalism  and to
government  that has shaped America's character from the time of the Revolution to today.
Trump's unique capacity to tap into that tradition of dissent and circumvent the American
system has brought us to the edge of dissolution-not for the first time in our history but
possibly the last. This is an elegant and deeply informed synthesis of history  contemporary
politics  and ideas that sheds light on this crucial moment.

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