Justice is coming : how progressives are going to take over the country and America is going to love it

Justice is coming How progressives are going to take over the country and America is going to love it

Cenk K. Uygur

Book - 2023

"A manifesto that outlines the progressive vision, recent history and worldview-by the founder of The Young Turks and co-founder of Justice Democrats. The media can't stop talking about the gridlock in Washington, as if a handful of stubborn Republicans are the only thing standing between us and a fully-functional democracy. The reality is that our government was taken over by big business and their allies in both political parties. The getaway driver in this heist was corporate media. The good news is that the American people are very progressive. And soon progressives will take over Washington as well! And when they do, the great majority of Americans will love it. In Justice Is Coming, The Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur present...s two ideas that counter everything we hear from pundits and politicians on a daily basis: one, progressives are correct on all issues, and two, America is actually a very progressive country. Millions of us know that we are a part of something larger, a movement that is already transforming Washington. This compulsively readable manifesto seeks to apply the momentum we have already built to a concrete progressive agenda that activists, voters, and citizens can all rally around. It looks beyond Trump to the larger historical forces that have given us this unique political moment, and explains why we should fight, how we should fight, and how we will win. Sharp-witted, persuasive, and inspiring, calling out toxic Republicans, politely-ineffectual Democrats, and mealy-mouthed media mavens in equal measure, Justice is Coming will give heart to Democrats and progressives who seek to change our politics and society for the better"--

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Subjects
Since 2021
Political culture > United States > History > 21st century.
Divided government > United States > History > 21st century.
Political parties > United States > History > 21st century.
Progressivism (United States politics)
Manners and customs > Humor.
Politics and government.
United States > Social life and customs > Humor.
United States > Politics and government > 2021-
United States.
Published
New York : St. Martin's Press [2023]
Language
English
Main Author
Cenk K. Uygur (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
308 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781250272799
  • Introduction
  • 1. America Is Progressive
  • 2. What Is a Progressive?
  • 3. Why Republicans Suck
  • 4. How We Lost Our Democracy
  • 5. The Matrix
  • 6. Here Comes the Revolution
  • 7. What Happens When Progressives Win
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
Review by Kirkus Book Review

The founder of the Young Turks presents a hopeful thesis that present polarization will resolve itself in a left-leaning democracy. The Republican Party comes in for heavy shellacking throughout Uygur's pages. The people who voted for Trump, by that account, didn't vote for him based on policy issues or a reasoned platform. "They wanted racism, cruelty, and authoritarianism," writes the author. They certainly got that and more. Yet, Uygur insists, that party is in power despite the fact that it consistently loses the popular vote. Most Americans "are just not fundamentally conservative"; they are opposed to social injustice and the authoritarian suppression of civil rights and the right to choose, wholly in favor of the social safety net provided by government programs. Race, greed, and religion on the one hand, social equity on the other: It's small wonder, Uygur writes, that young voters are so overwhelmingly left-leaning, to the extent that 60% polled on the matter believed socialism to be more humane than capitalism, and that the Republican Party is therefore doing all it can to disenfranchise them. For all their efforts, writes the author, extreme right-wing politicians will not succeed in passing any spectacularly awful laws, such as making Trump president for life or stripping civil rights away from the LGBTQ+ community, despite a certain amount of fearmongering among progressives that they're plotting to do just such things. ("It's so easy to scare Democratic voters.") That's not to say they won't try, though Uygur remains firm in his view that progressives will win in the end because they will somehow convince "our conservative brothers and sisters" that progressives love them--and "when you give out love, it doesn't make you smaller, it makes you larger." Magical thinking? Perhaps, but it's a nice thought. An optimistic prophecy that a saner, more equitable politics will take the place of whatever it is we have now. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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