Ryan Taylor

Best explanation of US politics I can find

Revisado: 05-08-20

Bacevich puts the last quarter century of US history, which is what I needed to understand the US today. He is not kind to Trump, but his main argument is a criticism of the world order that American promoted as after apparently “winning” the Cold War: freedom, manifest as globalized neoliberalism, militarism, consumerism and presidential power. Sorry for all the isms, he writes better. So the 2016 election was most importantly a rejection of this status quo and its array of intolerably out-of-touch candidates. It signals a deeper shift that Trump was really the first to recognize, and is only a transitory figure. What the future holds, the author leaves pretty wide open, but he recognizes climate change as the galvanizing issue of our time. Overall highly highly recommend.

Afternote: as the millennial I am, I thought his military perspective was particularly enlightening. In places his cultural observations were thin, but still accurate and approached with humility.

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