Trump, the echt white-male-resentment and "free-speech" candidate

Death, of course, is the ultimate containment; other, less final containments are conversely strategies toward genocide. Perfect chiasmus.

As opposed to those of its global adversary, they contended, the interests of America were coterminous with the world’s interests.

Both parties had committed to the basic elements of what became “the American model.” At home, it involved a modest welfare state combined with meliorism on issues of race. Abroad, the goal was the reconstruction of foreign societies on American terms through the spread of market capitalism and the legal-political institutions of liberal democracy.

In the 1990s, encomiums to the Constitution were taken for granted.

Politicians knew what homilies they had to repeat to be taken seriously by party gatekeepers and thus rise to prominence.

Desire is, by nature, childlike and chary of government.

Embedded in Case and Deaton’s “narrative of deterioration,” then, is a narrative of racial declension. Poorer, non-college-educated black and Hispanics have suffered the same economic weakness without experiencing rising mortality and morbidity