Ableism

, 148–149

Accommodators

, 68

Affordable Care Act (ACA)

, 108–109

assault on

, 108–109

regulation

, 108

signature flaws

, 117–118

African Americans

, 57

Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC program)

, 113–114

“All-of-the-above” energy strategy

, 139

Ambassadors

, 68

“America First” rhetoric

, 10–11

American Blindspot

, 69

American carnage

, 180

American Dream

, 161–162

American social policy

, 113

Americans for Financial Reform (AFR)

, 19

Amnesty to enforcement

, 92–94

Anglo-Saxon Protestants

, 69

Anti-fascists (antifa)

, 50

Anti-Muslim sentiment

, 69

“Anti-white” doctrine

, 10, 53

Antiracist movement

, 58–59

Austerity

, 148–149

Auto industry

, 37

Banks

, 145–146

Biden, Joseph

, 13, 17, 73, 160, 186, 193, 196

administration

, 192

election

, 187

immigration policy

, 15–16

possibilities for progressive reform

, 22–24

Bipartisan consistency

, 91–92, 97, 99, 130–131

Birthers

, 69–70

allegation

, 49–50

Black “crime”

, 51

Black codes

, 56

Black Lives Matter (BLM)

, 50

Black Panthers

, 33, 55

Black people

, 32, 59, 61

Bloomberg News

, 18, 136

Bonapartism

, 59–60

Border militarization

, 85–86

Border Patrol forces (BORTAC)

, 95–96

Bretton Woods agreement (1944)

, 181

Brown, Wendy

, 35–36

“Build Back Better” legislation

, 140

Bush administration

, 42

Business confidence

, 16

Business Roundtable

, 37–38

California v. Texas

, 108, 118

Capitalism

, 59

depends on borders, militarization, and repression

, 94–95

Capitalists

, 22–24, 142–143

CARES Act

, 114–117

Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA)

, 97–98

Central American refugees, Democrats and containment of

, 95–97

Central American Regional Security Initiative

, 98–99

Children’s Health program (CHIP program)

, 117

China

, 190–193

Christian Latinx immigrants

, 70

Christian nationalism

, 66–68, 70

White evangelicals and

, 67–70

CIA intervention

, 41

Clean Power Plan

, 128–129

Climate destruction

, 17

Climate emergency

, 1–2, 23–24, 134

Climate movement

, 132

balance of forces within ruling class

, 142–146

destruction and resistance under Democratic rule

, 138–142

destruction and resistance under Republican rule

, 133–138

strategy

, 135–136

Collaborative Multi-racial Post-Election Survey (2016) (CMPS)

, 70–71

Congressional Democrats

, 90

Congressional Republicans

, 8

Corporate compromise

, 112–113

Corporate elites

, 34–35, 39

COVID-19

pandemic

, 107

recession

, 112, 117

vaccine refusal

, 75–76

Criminal Justice Reform

, 51–52

Crisis of democracy

, 3

Critical Race Theory (CRT)

, 4, 10, 52–53, 55, 76

bans

, 76–77

vaccine refusal and battle over

, 73–77

Culture wars

, 71–72

Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)

, 136, 139

Decommodification

, 110

Democratic Party

, 39, 91–92

Democratic political elites

, 34–36

Democratic rule, destruction and resistance under

, 138–142

Democrats

, 21, 39, 84, 89–90, 92

and containment of Central American refugees

, 95–97

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

, 60, 86

Disaster capitalism

, 40

Dispute settlement mechanism

, 189

Disruption

, 146–147

Diversionary wars

, 173

Divided citizenship

, 113

Dominican Republic with the Central American Free-Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR)

, 97–98

East Coast elites

, 70

Election process

, 74

Electoral calculations

, 16

Electric vehicles (EV)

, 142–143

Empire

, 181

“Enforcement-only” consensus

, 85–88

Environmental politics

, 39

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

, 128–129, 131–133

Evangelical Christianity

, 67–68

“Fair and humane” policies

, 84

Fair Sentencing Act (2010)

, 52

Fake news

, 9–10, 74

“False flag” actions

, 50

Fascism

, 59–60

Federal Elections Commission

, 31–32

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

, 136–137

Finance capital

, 144–145

First Step Act

, 52

Fossil fuels

, 127–129

capitalist power

, 131

extraction

, 37

producers

, 131–132

Republican dedication to fossil fuel profits

, 135

“Free market” system

, 54–55

Free-trade agreements (FTAs)

, 84, 97

Free-trade policies

, 97–99

Fuzzy math

, 11

G-2 strategy

, 190–191

Gay rights

, 71–72

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

, 181

Georgia

, 55–56

Globalization

, 20

Green New Deal (GND)

, 38, 148

Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG emissions)

, 127–128

Guatemalan-United Fruit case

, 41–42

Health care

, 107

market medicine

, 110–112

patchwork policy

, 113–115

unequal protection

, 115–117

Health firms

, 18

Health insurance

, 110

Hegemony

, 161, 179–180

US hegemonic strategy

, 180–185

HFC-23

, 131–132

Homeland Security

, 35–36

Immigration

and borders

, 35–37

policy

, 13

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

, 12, 85–86

Immigration politics

amnesty to enforcement

, 92–94

bipartisan imperial road map

, 97–99

capitalism depends on borders, militarization, and repression

, 94–95

Democrats

, 89–90, 92

Democrats and containment of Central American refugees

, 95–97

“enforcement-only” consensus

, 85–88

U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021

, 88–89

Imperialism

, 91–92, 148–149

Inequality

, 109–110

Intellectual property

, 183

Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF treaty)

, 186–187

International Monetary Fund

, 181

Interracial mass movement

, 58

Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015

, 187

Islamic terrorism

, 69

Jellybean test

, 57

Job creators

, 10

Job-based coverage

, 111–112

Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)

, 187

Keystone XL Pipeline

, 38

Legitimate protection

, 161–165

social and geopolitical conflict

, 171–174

Lobbying

, 23–24

Malcolm X

, 55

Marxists

, 60

Mass action

, 57

Medicaid

, 113–114, 116

Medicare

, 113–114, 116

Migrants

, 36–37

Militarism

, 185–190

continuity in policy

, 42–43

control of natural resources

, 40–42

and imperialism

, 40–43

military contractors

, 40

Military contractors

, 40

Military leaders

, 145

“Military-Industrial Complex”

, 40

Muslim ban

, 66, 70, 85–86

National neoliberalism

, 11

Nativism

, 117

NATO

allies

, 186

military alliance

, 163

Natural resources, control of

, 40–42

Neoliberal plunder

, 164

New culture wars

, 70–73

New Deal

, 23

New START Treaty

, 191–192

“No Justice, No Peace” slogan

, 58–59

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

, 97–98, 180, 189

Oath Keepers

, 74

Obama, Barack

, 34

administration

, 42

environmental policies

, 37

healthcare reform

, 12

Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)

, 112

Occupy Wall Street movement

, 32

Open Skies Agreement

, 186–187

Operation Dixie

, 113

Opportunity Zones

, 52

“Over the horizon” strategy

, 168–169

Overton window model of policy ideas

, 33

Paris climate accord

, 38–39

Path dependence

, 143

Patriarchy

, 148–149

Performative opposition concepts

, 37

Plan Colombia

, 98–99

Plan Mérida

, 98–99

Privatization

, 184–185

Profit motive

, 111

Progressive reform

continued chaos and failure of

, 13–17

possibilities for

, 22–24

Project PAC (1776)

, 77

Proud Boys

, 74

QAnon

, 74–75

Race

, 70, 73, 111–112

Race-baiting

, 51

Racial inequality

, 58

Racial injustice

, 50–52

Racism (see also Capitalism)

, 10, 59, 117, 148–149

Radical flank effect

, 33, 37

Raw materials

, 40–41

Reagan administration

, 114

Regional militarization

, 97–99

Religion

, 70–73

Religious fundamentalism

, 22

“Remain in Mexico” policies

, 86–87

Replacement theory (see also Critical Race Theory (CRT))

, 53

Republican obstructionism in Congress

, 130–131

Republican Party

, 1–2, 39, 91–92

Republican rule, destruction and resistance under

, 133–138

Resistance campaigns

, 148

Ruling class, balance of forces within

, 142–146

Russo-Japanese War of 1904

, 173

Second Redemption

, 61

Secular stagnation

, 13

Secure Fence Act of 2006

, 36

Sentencing Project, The

, 52

Shariah law

, 72

Social movement strategy

, 13

Social policy

, 107

Social Security

, 113–114

South African War

, 173

Spanish-American War

, 173

Special and differential treatment (SDT)

, 188

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017)

, 34

Tax cuts on corporations

, 34–35

Temporary Legal Status (TLS)

, 88–89

Terrorism

, 72

Third New Deal

, 115–116

Third World elites

, 161–162

Three Percenters

, 74

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

, 188

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)

, 188

Transnational capitalist class

, 40

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

, 194–195

Trump, Donald

, 1, 3, 7–8, 43, 49–50, 67, 159–160

administration policies

, 109–110

“America’s back”

, 167–171

bullying

, 160

Business Advisory Council

, 31–32

after COVID-19

, 117–119

cutting taxes on corporations

, 34–35

draconian anti-immigrant policy

, 21

effect

, 2

election

, 66

environment

, 37–39

environmental appointees

, 133–134

failed to reduce militarism or weaken capitalists

, 185–190

far-right judicial appointees

, 8

immigration and borders

, 35–37

implications

, 43

militarism and imperialism

, 40–43

policies

, 11–12, 35

politics

, 66

possibilities for progressive reform

, 22–24

presidential campaign

, 180

and racial injustice

, 50–52

regulatory policies

, 21–22

Republicanism

, 108–109

rhetoric

, 9

social agenda

, 9

unabashed racketeer

, 165–167

Trump, Fred

, 51

Trumpian politics

, 73–77

Trumpism

, 1–2, 9, 13, 50, 59–60, 84

U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 (USCA)

, 88–89

Unequal protection

, 115–117

Unions

, 148

United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA)

, 97–98, 189

Universality

, 113

US capitalists

, 20–21

US corporations

, 19

US foreign policy

, 160

US ruling class

, 20

US-Korea Free Trade Agreement

, 191

US-Mexico border

, 2

Vaccine accepters

, 76

Vaccine refusal and battle over Critical Race Theory

, 73–77

Vietnam War

, 182–184

Voting rights

, 55–58

Voting Rights Act (1965)

, 55–56

Wagner Act (1935)

, 23

Wall Street Journal

, 17–18

War

, 162

“War on Christmas”

, 66

White Evangelicals

and Christian nationalism

, 67–70

religion, race, and new culture wars

, 70–73

Trumpian politics

, 73–77

White supremacists

, 50, 56

White supremacy

, 52–55

Whiteness

, 69, 73

Willow project

, 140–141

World Bank

, 181

World Health Organization

, 7–8

Yellow Vest movement

, 148

“Zero-Tolerance” policy

, 86