Democracy in the US is under threat from within. Racial nationalism – a throwback to unresolved tensions from the American Civil War – has found new impetus under Trump, forcing civic nationalism into a corner. Will the immutable longevity of the American Constitution be its paradoxical undoing? And how might the US recover from its emerging dictatorship?
Gary Gerstle
is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History Emeritus, Director of Research in American History, and Emeritus Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK. His books include: ‘Liberty and Coercion: The paradox of American government from the founding to the present’; ‘American Crucible: Race and nation in the twentieth century’; and ‘The Rise of Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the world in the free market era’.