A year or so before the most recent election of Donald Trump, I read a newly-released book that, while little-noticed upon publication, opened a window on the new era of America politics, outlining virtually every issue that Trump would raise on his march to the presidency while detailing the powerful structural and institutional obstacles he would face.
At a time of cowardice on racial issues, the book was forthright, noting that America’s black political leadership has been “courted, coddled and fawned upon by the press as no other assemblage of politicians in history. Even today it is kowtowed to by the Democratic Party in a manner and approaching the servile.” The book attacked the hypocrisy of “upper-middle class bureaucrats and judges” who mouthed politically correct slogans while sending their children to schools far away from minorities.
It noted the…
