Good Old Fashioned Governance: The Institutionalization of Resentment in America 2008-2025

The narrative of American bigotry in the twenty-first century is a narrative of strategic adaptability. When the "hollow" norms of the twentieth century were challenged by Black political achievement, the reactive forces in American society did not disappear; they evolved. They moved from the "old-fashioned" racism of the past to a symbolic "anti-PC" resentment, and finally to a comprehensive, institutionalized plan to restructure the American state.