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…patriotic ownership, for hope without naivety. To do so Americans will have to consider the world & understand their true place within it. We hope this book will be a first step.

THE DIAL: we felt the anglosphere could benefit deeply from reading the work of journalists & writers from abroad.

…in which social disputes fester rather than move toward resolution. Inequality, ineffective politics & social divisions create the conditions for authoritarianism in the U.S. as they do in other parts of the world; the difference is HOW LITTLE THE AM PEOPLE SEEM TO SEE THE POLITICAL SITUATION WE’RE IN NOW.

Top question from abroad is, how can Americans be letting this happen?

Answer: many Am still believe…

…what was it about him & his voters? Pundits scrutinized the individual psychology of T supporters…the larger context..rarely entered into it…ignoring European counterparts.

Working w/foreign writers taught us there’s nothing exceptional about what’s happening in the U.S. except that so many Am continue to cling to idea of their own specialness— it’s part of global political turn…

I toggled b/t coverage of the far right at home & abroad & noticed a disconnect… in Germany the far right was often seen in historical terms, its rise tied both to the country’s previous exp w/fascism & current economic gulfs that had made society less cohesive…the specificity of own history was crucial but also larger context of trends across Europe…

In US discussion of T & GOP often turned personal…