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Is Donald Trump likely to win a second term? E.J. Dionne, historian and columnist for the Washington Post, in his new book, Code Red, is the guide we need. One of our leading public intellectuals, Dionne provides a detailed guide to current politics and anchors his views in larger philosophical concerns for democracy, representation, and recognition.
It seems not any pundit reaches into intellectual history as Dionne does, paraphrasing philosopher Reinhold Niebuhr on how “we can seek the truth in our opponent’s errors and the errors in our own truth”? And in a time when Bernie Sanders trumpets a call for “socialism,” E.J. reminds us of the visionary American democratic socialist Michael Harrington, who saw political change not as a revolution but as “visionary gradualism.”
Code Red helps us see why the 2020 election matters, lifting our vision up as the Democrats grind toward the process of selecting Trump’s challenger. And in a time when division and conflict seem all around us, Dionne argues—and demonstrates— that Americans have more shared values than not.
