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http://www.theliberaloc.com/2016/09/13/trump-and-the-roots-of-rage-is-a-crowning-achievement-for-oc-author/

Here is just one paragraph from the above excerpt:

At its core, the right that dominates the Republican Party is the union of the ideological children of the Southern slave aristocracy and the right-wing edge of the capitalist class within a single political party. This is something new in American politics. The two most reactionary elements in American politics confronted each other in the Civil War and in the century that followed; today they stand united against the liberal ideals of Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, and Obama, having excommunicated moderates and classic conservatives from the Republican Party. The nation’s focus is on the presidential contest between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, yet the challenge from the right extends far beyond Trump. Together, Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, and Mitch McConnell are the modern equivalent of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – Death, Famine, War, and Conquest.[3] As leaders of the Republican Party, they are waging all-out war against both liberals and the founders.



Kevin O’Leary is currently a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine. A graduate of UCLA, he earned his Ph.D. at Yale University and is the author of Saving Democracy: A Plan for Real Representation in America (Stanford UP, 2006, paper), a book that earned praise from The Atlantic’s James Fallows as well as a host of leading political scientists and was the subject of a Brookings Institution panel hosted by E.J. Dionne. He also teaches political science and honors courses at Chapman University.
As a journalist, Kevin was TIME’s lead reporter on the West Coast and wrote numerous stories about the Great Recession and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as a five-part series on the 2009 California fiscal crisis. During the 2010 campaign, he reported on gubernatorial and congressional races in the West. Prior to TIME, he was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, editor of OC Metro magazine, and editorial page editor of the Pasadena Star-News. He is a contributor to The American Prospect, which published his article “Trump and the Racial Politics of the South” in its Summer 2016 issue. http://prospect.org/article/trump-and-racial-politics-south






I have searched also, and can't find anywhere to order the book anymore-

The second link I posted above to the American Prospect article by O'Leary is disturbing for its prescience describing Trump's racist appeal similar to George Wallace including this excerpt from that article :

"IF YOU WANT TO SEE a 20th-century politician who prefigured the Trump coalition, look no further than Alabama Governor George C. Wallace. A four-time presidential candidate and former Democrat, Wallace helped deliver the White House to Richard Nixon in 1968 when he headed the American Independent ticket and garnered 13.5 percent of the vote and carried five states with 46 ballots in the Electoral College. Wallace stunned political observers by showing surprising strength in the North. His support among blue-collar workers cost Democrat Hubert Humphrey dearly in such states as Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, where Wallace votes exceeded Nixon’s margin over Humphrey. A mid-September AFL-CIO poll showed roughly one in three union members supporting Wallace, and a Chicago Sun-Times poll showed that Wallace had the support of 44 percent of white steelworkers in Chicago.

“Trump’s voters are the sons and daughters, mostly the sons, of the Wallace voters,” says Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at UNC Chapel Hill. Every modern Republican presidential candidate starts with a white base in the South. What is new is Trump’s audacious attempt to take the white politics of the South national via an aggressive demonization of immigrants, Muslims, women, blacks, and minorities of all stripes."