In his new book the journalist and CNN anchor writes a history of revolutionary changes, and how societies both embrace change, and resist it.
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article.In 'Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present' , journalist and CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria writes a history of revolutionary changes, and what they presage for the ideological divisions affecting political discourse in the 21st century. His book explores how societies both embrace change, and resist it.
But these days, this fundamental ideological division has broken down.Consider Donald Trump and his run for the presidency in 2016. Trump was a departure from the past in so many ways—his bizarre personality, his ignorance of public policy, and his flouting of democratic norms. But perhaps the most significant sense in which Trump was different was ideological. For decades, the Republican Party had espoused a set of ideas that could be described as the Reagan formula.
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