We Still Hold These Truths

Author: Ronald HirschISBN 1-58939-587-5 (softcover)108 PagesThe message of We Still Hold These Truths is even more urgent now than when it was written in 2004. Goaded by Republican demagoguery and caught in an economic malaise and the pandemic, a fierce anger arose among much of the public against the Democrat's progressive agenda, encouraging Republicans in Congress and state legislatures to destroy much of the progressive framework enacted by government during the past 100 years and attack the process of democracy that has been America's hallmark.What right-wing pundits started, Donald Trump honed to perfection in the 2016 campaign and his presidency:  the use of demagoguery and the big lie. With these tools, Trump and the pundits have roused people who were angry and fearful to a fever pitch.  And they will believe as fact anything that Trump and his allies tell them.The issue is no longer the traditional conservative/liberal divide,  big versus small government, high versus low tax