Racialized Anti-Statism and the Failure of the American State

摘要: How well do we understand the political moment in which find ourselves wake of Trump presidency? The United States has long failed to keep up with its democratic peers on a wide range social outcomes but struggle pandemic at bay, coupled increases violence and new uprisings over state have exposed failures American stark manner. While research attitudes continues offer crucial insights into what Americans want from government how race, class, gender are formative dimensions public opinion, know considerably less about these intersect highly fragmented decentralized nature U.S. institutions. In this essay, I framework for understanding our current through lens racialized anti-statism failure. focus intersection two reinforcing overlapping features system: fragmented, veto-laden structure politics persistence anti-egalitarian movements. By situating analysis intersection, observe convergence racial economic power an anti-statist alliance that undermines state-building, even when large majorities favor it.