What Is The Uprising?
“Uprising” is a history-flavored word. It reminds us of elementary school book reports on the Revolutionary War and bold passages from the Declaration of Independence insisting “that whenever any form of government becomes destructive…it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.” But as I found over a year of reporting for my new book, The Uprising, these mass insurrections are not just phenomena of the past. Indeed, America is in the throes of a powerful new uprising right now – one whose specifics I’m looking forward to discussing this week at TPM’s book club. As we will explore this week, this uprising is happening on both the Right and the Left. Like most revolts, it is rooted in a backlash to an Establishment widely seen as corrupt and morally decayed. This uprising has more picket signs and protests than pitchforks and pistols (though I certainly saw some of those down at the Mexican border when reporting on the Minutemen). It is a social phenomenon that is impactin
