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Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy

Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy

Michaels, Jon
Noll, David

Paperback

General LawGeneral SociologyUnited States Politics

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1668023245
ISBN13: 9781668023242
Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers
Published: Aug 12 2025
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
A vivid account of the Right's subversive campaign to impose Christian nationalist rule.

Time and again, when confronted with serious challenges to their power and privilege, white Christian nationalists seek solace--and satisfaction--in state-supported forms of vigilantism.

This was true at the dawn of the American republic, when Northern abolitionists threatened the Southern slavocracy. It was also true in the aftermath of the Civil War, when emancipated Black Americans and their Northern allies sought to fulfill the promises of Reconstruction. And though this pattern was seemingly broken after the Civil Rights revolution of the 1950s and '60s--and abandoned once and for all--legal vigilantism has made a surprising, roaring comeback in the months and years following the failed coup of January 6, 2021.

Committed to never again losing power, let alone experiencing the humiliation that followed on the heels of the heavy-handed insurrection, overlapping networks of right-wing lawyers, politicians, plutocrats, and preachers have resurrected state-supported vigilantism.

Vigilante Nation tells this story of the American Right marginalizing, subordinating, and disenfranchising the increasingly diverse and cosmopolitan members of the American polity. This book exposes the vigilantes' plans, explains their methods--everything from book bans to anti-abortion bounties to attacks on government proceedings, including elections--and underscores the stakes. Now that supporters of democratic equality are numerous and dexterous enough to finally secure the broad promises of the civil rights revolution, the race is on for MAGA Republicans to subvert our democracy before a countermovement can rise up to thwart their insidious plans.

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