His opponents have tried to argue that America is already great, has been great, and will always be great. But the truth is, for many Americans, thin… - John Feffer

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His opponents have tried to argue that America is already great, has been great, and will always be great. But the truth is, for many Americans, things have not been so great for at least the last two decades.

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About John Feffer

(born 1963) is an author and currently co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the . He is a fellow at the . His books include Crusade 2.0, (City Lights, 2012), a description of contemporary attacks on Islam, North Korea/South Korea: US Policy and the Korean Peninsula, a description of current U.S. policy towards Korea and its limitations, Power Trip, a narrative of American during the George W. Bush administration, and Living in Hope, a description of creative responses by local communities to the challenges of globalization.

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The voters vowed to take their revenge at the polls. They’d missed out on the country’s vaunted prosperity. They were disgusted with the liberal direction of the previous administration. They were anti-abortion and pro-religion. They were suspicious of immigrants, haughty intellectuals, and intrusive international institutions. And they very much wanted to make their nation great again.

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