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But coming from a man so close to the president, the message seemed clear enough: If threatened with removal from office, Trump might encourage his gun-toting supporters to start shooting people, up to and including members of Congress.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E2\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the United States, of course, the far right is heavily armed. During the Obama years, distaste for the nation\u2019s first black president helped drive a massive increase in gun purchases, with aggregate sales averaging over 1 million a month during his administration. Prodded by the National Rifle Association, most states now have open-carry or concealed-carry laws, meaning that extremist groups can and do turn up in public spaces armed for battle. Plus the number of white-supremacist groups is growing rapidly, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which now tracks more than 900 hate groups.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E3\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStone\u2019s apocalyptic bluster came as no surprise to Rashad Robinson, the executive director of Color of Change, a nonprofit group based in New York that works to change corporate behavior around race and social justice. No modern American politician has exploited the seductive power of violence quite like Donald Trump, and Robinson recognized the potential consequences of this early on. After the 2016 election, he and Color of Change created a strategy document for the approaching era of resistance. The victory of a \u201cchange the rules\u201d candidate like Trump, Robinson wrote, could rapidly unravel \u201clong held principles\u201d in the United States, including the rule of law. 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Instead, it\u2019s the coming together of groups of people who are convinced that direct action\u2014including physical violence\u2014is the necessary response to the resurgence of fascist groups in America.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E6\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECornel West explicitly thanked antifa activists for saving his and other religious leaders\u2019 lives during the mayhem in Charlottesville. \u201cWe would have been crushed like cockroaches if it were not for the anarchists and the antifascists\u201d who shielded them from an approaching group of white supremacists, West said. Yet the acceptance of street fighting as a legitimate political tool is an idea that many on the left reject, on both tactical and ethical grounds. Antifa\u2019s actions, says Noam Chomsky, are \u201ca major gift to the right, including the militant right, who are exuberant.\u2026 When confrontation shifts to the arena of violence, it\u2019s the toughest and most brutal who win\u2014and we know who that is.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E7\u003C\/span\u003E\t\t\u003Caside class=\u0022pull-quote-module\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022pull-quote-blocks\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\u003Cp\u003E“The election of Trump has not just emboldened racists; they have been activated.” —\u200aKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton professor\u003C\/p\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003C\/div\u003E \n\t\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\n\t\n\u003Cp\u003EIn many ways, this debate revives an age-old conundrum on the left. From mid-19th-century abolitionists to suffragettes in the early 20th century, from union organizers in the 1930s to civil-rights and antiwar activists in the \u201960s, the question has been argued repeatedly: In the face of violence unleashed by the state, by capital, or by right-wing groups, how should the left respond?\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E8\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe question continues to resurface in American history because, our national mythologies notwithstanding, violence has been a defining characteristic of that history from the start. The enslavement of African Americans was enforced with violence, as was the subjugation of Native Americans. There have been armed extremists on the right\u2014the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens\u2019 Councils, the John Birch Society\u2014as well as armed insurrectionists on the left: the early anarchists, the Weathermen, the Black Panthers.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E9\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe right, however\u2014those promoting and defending embedded racial, religious, economic, and gender inequities\u2014has resorted to violence both more frequently than the left and on a far larger scale. In the 1920s, \u201cthe Klan had 4 million members and had strong political influence in several states,\u201d says Michael Kazin, a professor of history at Georgetown University. 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But smokescreen or not, the threat to civil society is all too real: Trump\u2019s aggressive rhetoric has given extremists nationwide the impression that they, too, are now free to act on their hate.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E12\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn May 20, a white supremacist in Maryland fatally stabbed Richard Collins III, a Bowie State University student and recently commissioned second lieutenant in the US Army. Six days later, two men were stabbed to death in Portland, Oregon, after defending a Muslim woman from a white supremacist. In Montana, Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte physically attacked a journalist from \u003Cem\u003EThe Guardian\u003C\/em\u003E who had asked a question that he didn\u2019t like; Gianforte handily won election the next day. In Louisiana, Republican Congressman Clay Higgins advocated a holy war against \u201cIslamic horror,\u201d urging: \u201cKill them all, for the sake of all that is good and righteous.\u201d In Mississippi, Republican State Representative Karl Oliver called for \u201clynching\u201d anyone who took down a Confederate statue.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E13\u003C\/span\u003E\t\u003Caside class=\u0022ad-300\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022ad full-width-mobile inline_ad_300x250_260666\u0022 id=\u0022inline_ad_300x250_260666\u0022\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\n\t\n\t\u003Cscript type=\u0022text\/javascript\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\/*\n\t\t * Article Inline Ads Calling\n\t\t *\/\n\t\tfunction inline_ad( articlePostId ){\n\t\t\tif( jQuery(\u0027#inline_ad_300x250_\u0027+articlePostId+\u0027\u0027).is(\u0027:empty\u0027) ){\n\t\t\t\tvar targetingArray = new Array();\n\t\t\t\ttargetingArray[\u0027tn_author\u0027] = [\u0027sasha-a\u0027];\n\t\t\t\ttargetingArray[\u0027tn_articleid\u0027] = [260666];\n\t\t\t\ttargetingArray[\u0027tn_ptype\u0027] = [\u0027article\u0027];\n\t\t\t\ttargetingArray[\u0027tn_keyword\u0027] = [\u0027anti-racis\u0027, \u0027civil-diso\u0027, \u0027civil-righ\u0027, \u0027civil-righ\u0027, \u0027donald-tru\u0027];\n\t\t\t\ttargetingArray[\u0027tn_subject\u0027] = [\u0027activism\u0027, \u0027social-jus\u0027, \u0027the-left\u0027, \u0027the-right\u0027];\n\t\t\t\ttargetingArray[\u0027tn_slp\u0027] = []; \n\t\t\t\tcall_ad_new(\u0027halfpage250\u0027,\u0027tn_article\u0027,\u0027inline_ad_300x250_\u0027+articlePostId+\u0027\u0027,\u0027rectangle_4\u0027,targetingArray);\t\t\n\t\t\t}\t\t\t\n\t\t} \t\t\n\t\u003C\/script\u003E\n\t\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou have what used to be more of a fringe element being given cover to operate in the open air,\u201d says Alicia Garza, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter. Like numerous anti-Trump activists, lawyers, academics, and journalists, Garza regularly receives death threats. \u201cWe can\u2019t call the police for support,\u201d she says, \u201cso how do we protect ourselves? All of us are having to take additional precautions, given that we\u2019re in the crosshairs of a different kind of administration than we\u2019ve ever seen in this country.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E14\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a Princeton University professor of African-American studies, gave a commencement speech in May at Hampshire College in which she called Trump a \u201cracist, sexist megalomaniac.\u201d A few days later, Fox News and other right-wing media outlets started criticizing her, and online trolls barraged her with threats. Taylor says she received two specific death threats and more than 60 hate e-mails, leading her to cancel a number of public appearances. \u201cThis is a dramatic escalation,\u201d Taylor says. \u201cThe election of Trump has not just emboldened racists; they have been \u003Cem\u003Eactivated\u003C\/em\u003E.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E15\u003C\/span\u003E\t\t\u003Caside class=\u0022pull-quote-module\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022pull-quote-blocks\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\u003Cp\u003ECornel West has called antifa activists lifesavers; Noam Chomsky deemed them “a major gift to the militant right.”\u003C\/p\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003C\/div\u003E \n\t\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\n\t\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022wpsdc-drop-cap\u0022\u003ET\u003C\/span\u003Ehis was exactly the kind of violence that Rashad Robinson at Color of Change expected to see after Trump\u2019s election. To plot a counter-strategy, Color of Change partnered with MoveOn, the progressive think tank Demos Action, and the National Domestic Workers Legacy Fund early in 2017 to convene the \u201cFightback Table.\u201d Consisting of representatives from about 50 civil-rights, environmental, immigrant-rights, and social-justice organizations, the Fightback Table began to hold regular meetings in Washington and New York. Participants discussed nonviolent ways to fight Trump, including strategizing a rapid response to defend the Affordable Care Act, mobilizing in the wake of the Charlottesville outrage, and organizing protests and political campaigns to protect vulnerable immigrant populations, among other actions.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E16\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDrawing on Color of Change\u2019s particular expertise, the Fightback Table has also explored strategies to embarrass business interests into separating themselves from Trump\u2019s agenda. \u201cWe\u2019re getting more and more traction at forcing corporations to not play both sides, to not be neutral in this moment,\u201d Robinson says, noting that many businesses distanced themselves from the administration after Trump\u2019s \u201cboth sides were at fault\u201d response to the events in Charlottesville. Color of Change had already been lobbying financial companies to stop processing payments for far-right groups selling fascist paraphernalia on their websites. In August, PayPal, American Express, and several other credit-card companies announced that they would stop working with nearly three dozen such groups, imposing a financial squeeze that could drain them of resources over time.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E17\u003C\/span\u003E\t\u003Caside class=\u0022left indent indents related-newarticle related-multi\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\u003Ch4\u003ERelated Article\u003C\/h4\u003E\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022newrelated-blocks\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/trump-is-a-cornered-megalomaniac-and-thats-a-grave-danger-to-the-country\/\u0022 class=\u0022related-multi-click\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Ch5\u003ETrump Is a Cornered Megalomaniac\u2014and That\u2019s a Grave Danger to the Country\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\/a\u003E \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cp class=\u0022author\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/sasha-abramsky\/\u0022\u003ESasha Abramsky\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\/div\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\t\t\n\t\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Fightback Table is pursuing other, similar tactics, while also working to broaden the antifascist coalition. \u201cThe corridors of power, whether Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Capitol Hill, or Hollywood\u2014we\u2019ll be pushing them to use their leverage to fight back against Trump,\u201d Robinson says. \u201cWe\u2019ll be leveraging people power to push legislatively,\u201d as well as to promote \u201ccultural change [and] people showing up for peaceful protest. We need to build alliances not just with progressives, but with the moderate center-right [and] folks of good faith on the right.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E18\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe most important principle is strength in numbers, and not leaving it to the most targeted communities to be the only ones standing up to these forces,\u201d argues Naomi Klein, the author of \u003Cem\u003ENo Is Not Enough\u003C\/em\u003E and a contributing editor at \u003Cem\u003EThe Nation\u003C\/em\u003E. \u201cThe more cross-movement alliance-building we do, the stronger progressive forces are in the face of state and vigilante violence.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E19\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne silver lining of Trump\u2019s rise to power is the collaboration it has encouraged among progressive groups that had previously remained isolated in their respective issue silos, maintains Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace. \u201cI\u2019ve dreamed of this unity and solidarity across the left!\u201d she says. \u201cThis level of solidarity is how we get through this.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E20\u003C\/span\u003E\t\t\n\t\t\u003Caside id=\u0022inline_cta_2_module_260666\u0022 class=\u0022inline-cta-2\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022inline-cta-blocks\u0022 id=\u0022inline_cta_2_260666\u0022\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022cta\u0022 id=\u0022inline_cta_2_btn_260666\u0022\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\t\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\n\t\t\n\t\t\u003Cscript type=\u0022text\/javascript\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tvar inline_cta_2_text_260666 = \u0027\u0027;\n\t\t\tvar inline_cta_2_button_text_260666 = \u0027\u0027;\n\t\t\tvar inline_cta_2_url_260666 = \u0027\u0027;\n\t\t\tvar inline_cta_2_bg_color_260666 = \u0027\u0027;\n\t\t\tvar inline_cta_2_font_color_260666 = \u0027\u0027;\n\t\t\tvar cta_2_check_260666 = false; 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The Highlander Center in Tennessee, which was instrumental in nonviolent training during the civil-rights era, has recently ramped up its efforts as well.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E21\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have to make sure we\u2019re skilled up on nonviolence and de-escalation training,\u201d Leonard says. Having long been targeted by state and vigilante violence internationally, Greenpeace is now educating a new generation of organizers in the United States on the most effective responses to violent provocation. During a just-concluded \u201cSummer of Resistance,\u201d Greenpeace says, it trained 2,000 people in 14 cities on the theory and techniques of nonviolent action. \u201cBe awake but not afraid\u201d is one guidepost, Leonard says. Another is to \u201cengage with opponents outside of their areas of strength. If they have the guns, don\u2019t shoot [guns]!\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E22\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou want to lead with a more compelling vision of the future than your adversaries have,\u201d explains activist-trainer James Brady of Greenpeace, adding that you also need lots of people to show up and put skin in the game. \u201cPeople misunderstand what nonviolence means. It means you try every possible means at your disposal to change the course of a conversation. If you want to shut down a group of neo-Nazis with nonviolence, you need 500 people. If you only have 50 people, you\u2019re going to have a fight.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E23\u003C\/span\u003E\t\t\u003Caside class=\u0022pull-quote-module\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022pull-quote-blocks\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\u003Cp\u003ESatire, cross-movement alliances, and sheer numbers are making fascists look small.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003C\/div\u003E \n\t\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\n\t\n\u003Cp\u003EBut a fight is exactly what\u2019s needed, antifa advocates reply, using as analogies the antifascist battles of the 1930s and the antiracist and antifascist struggles in Europe in the 1980s. \u201cIt\u2019s an act of self-defense, community defense, and minority defense to shut them down by any means necessary,\u201d says journalist Natasha Lennard, who has written extensively on the networks of activists who come together under the \u201cantifa\u201d banner. \u201cQuite often the property damage is aimed toward disruption. Make a venue aware that if they fall prey to this free-speech myth and have white supremacists speak, there\u2019s a promise of disruption.\u201d Writing in \u003Cem\u003EThe Nation\u003C\/em\u003E on the eve of Trump\u2019s inauguration, Lennard quoted a New York City antifa group\u2019s declaration: \u201cIf Trump tries to register Muslims and engage in mass deportations, a Change.org petition is not going to stop it.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E24\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJeff Rousset, a longtime grassroots organizer in Philadelphia and Boston, disagrees. He argues that the antifa strategy invites catastrophe and \u201ccould actually accelerate the rise of fascism. It makes conservatives feel that they are under attack, and then they side with the extreme right.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E25\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is not about who controls the most violence; it\u2019s about who controls the legitimacy of the political space,\u201d insists Erica Chenoweth, the co-author of \u003Cem\u003EWhy Civil Disobedience Works\u003C\/em\u003E. Chenoweth cites Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s advocacy of nonviolent yet uncompromising resistance to state and vigilante violence. By maintaining discipline in the face of relentless abuse, the movement that King led attracted mass support and ultimately helped to deliver such substantive victories as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Just so today, Chenoweth maintains, progressives should use \u201cinnovative techniques\u201d that push progressive goals while avoiding the street fights sought by the armed right.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E26\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter employed one such technique after the National Rifle Association released a video exhorting that only \u201cthe clenched fist of truth\u201d could save the country from the anti-Trump resistance. Over images of protest marches and street violence and mentions of our first black president, an NRA spokeswoman snarled words like \u201cassassinate,\u201d \u201cburn,\u201d and \u201cterrorize\u201d before calling the NRA \u201cfreedom\u2019s safest place.\u201d Fighting fire with fire, Black Lives Matter released a video that was a mirror version of the NRA\u2019s. Over images of white vigilantes and police killings, a Black Lives Matter spokeswoman declared that \u201cthe only option left is for black people to disrupt the systems that keep us oppressed and build the kinds of communities in which we want to live.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E27\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn chaos is when change happens,\u201d says Jo Ann Hardesty of the NAACP\u2019s Portland, Oregon, chapter. Hardesty helped organize the chapter\u2019s \u201cFreedom Summer 2017\u201d training session on nonviolent direct action, which she regards as the path to power. \u201cTalk to people not on their political affiliation but their values\u2014neighbor to neighbor, friend to friend, community to community.\u201d\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E28\u003C\/span\u003E\t\u003Caside class=\u0022left indent indents related-newarticle related-multi\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\u003Ch4\u003ERelated Article\u003C\/h4\u003E\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022newrelated-blocks\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/if-you-appreciated-seeing-neo-nazi-richard-spencer-get-punched-thank-the-black-bloc\/\u0022 class=\u0022related-multi-click\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Ch5\u003ENeo-Nazi Richard Spencer Got Punched\u2014You Can Thank the Black Bloc\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\/a\u003E \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cp class=\u0022author\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/natasha-lennard\/\u0022\u003ENatasha Lennard\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\/div\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\u003C\/aside\u003E\t\t\n\t\n\u003Cp\u003EThis movement-building is starting to pay off. Wherever fascist groups have mobilized recently, broad coalitions of opponents have taken to the streets in far larger numbers. One week after Charlottesville, tens of thousands marched peacefully in Boston against a handful of fascists. In San Francisco, a large, mainly peaceful crowd marched, sang, and danced against white supremacy in general and Trump in particular. Satire, humor, absurdism, as well as the sheer numbers of energized people showing up on the streets\u2014all are being used to make fascists look small.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E29\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022wpsdc-drop-cap\u0022\u003ET\u003C\/span\u003Ehe Trump era is host to many tragedies and many absurdities. When its history is written, the normalization of political violence should rank high on the list. Democracy survives when a community or a country makes powerful and sustained efforts to resolve its differences peacefully. It dies when individuals try to impose their visions through force and to consolidate power through intimidation.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E30\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2017, we stand on a precipice. President Trump has all but endorsed violence against the media, against political opponents, and against marginalized racial, religious, and sexual groups. He has used his bully pulpit to sow fear, discord, and division, perhaps hoping to provoke his opponents as well as his supporters into embracing violence. In that case, Trump may calculate, the political middle might tolerate him as a strongman who restores \u201claw and order\u201d by cracking down on dissent and sweeping the streets clean of riffraff.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E31\u003C\/span\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is how demagogues have always operated. The challenge for the resistance is to douse the fires of violence that Trump is fanning while building a powerful, inclusive opposition that doesn\u2019t need physical force to succeed. On a pragmatic level, violence from the left would likely lead to a law-and-order crackdown, as it did in the 1960s, when Richard Nixon tapped into the latent racism and cultural fears of the \u201csilent majority.\u201d Moreover, any lurch toward violence would deprive progressives of the moral high ground\u2014vital territory to hold in turbulent times. Although we certainly must stand firm against the Trump regime, we must do so peacefully, gracefully, and without compromising our movement\u2019s potential or our core values. Fascism is peculiarly good at making people act shamefully; in resisting Trump, we must remain peaceful in the face of violent provocation and keep faith with who we truly are.\u003Cspan class=\u0022paranum hidden\u0022\u003E32\u003C\/span\u003E\n\t\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/section\u003E\n\n\u003Csection class=\u0022aside-wrap\u0022\u003E\u003C\/section\u003E\n\u003Cfooter class=\u0022article-footer narrow new-article-footer\u0022 id=\u0022article-footer-260666\u0022\u003E\n\n\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022footer-module narrow author-bio\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\n\t\t\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/sasha-abramsky\/\u0022\u003E Sasha Abramsky\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003ESasha Abramsky, who writes regularly for \u003Cem\u003EThe Nation\u003C\/em\u003E, is the author of several books, including \u003Cem\u003EInside\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cem\u003EObama\u2019s Brain\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EBreadline 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