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Praise for The Terror of the Unforeseen
“Henry Giroux, a brilliant and revolutionary thinker, helps us understand why we must refuse to equate capitalism and democracy, or to normalize greed or accept individualism as the highest form of human life. In this exciting new take on social reality, Giroux describes how the neoliberalism that has for the past 40 years has been paving a path to fascism that will have a distinctively contemporary flavor, yet will be just as destructive as fascisms of the past. Filled with passion and insight, The Terror of the Unforeseen is a book that should be read by anyone who wants to understand and prepare for the dangers and opportunities of political struggle in the 2020s.”
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State of Disunion
Nowhere is this dystopian vision more succinctly contained than in Trump’s first State of the Union Address and the response it garnered.42 Billed by the White House as a speech that would be “unifying” and marked by a tone of “bipartisanship,” it was in actuality the opposite. Steeped in divisiveness, fear, racism, war mongering, nativism, and immigrant bashing, it once again displayed Trump’s contempt for democracy. Claiming “all Americans deserve accountability and respect,” he spent ample airtime equating undocumented immigrants with the criminal gang MS-13, regardless of the fact that undocumented immigrants commit fewer crimes than American citizens do. As Juan Cole points out, “Americans murdered 17,250 other Americans in 2016. Almost none of the perpetrators was an undocumented worker, contrary to the impression Trump gave.”43 According to Cole, “Where the race of the perpetrator was known in 2016, about 30 percent were white and 36 percent were black; less than two percent were known to be of another ethnicity. However, Trump foregrounded murders by immigrants. Homicide tracks pretty closely with poverty, not with race.”44 For Trump, as with most demagogues, fear is the most valued currency of politics. Moreover, he delivered it in spades, suggesting that the visa lottery system and “chain migration” — in which individuals can migrate through the sponsorship of their family — pose a threat to America and “present risks we can just no longer afford.” He suggested even DREAMERS were part of a culture of criminality and in a not too subtle expression of derision stated “Americans are dreamers too.” White nationalists such as Richard Spencer and David Duke cheered Trump’s remark. This was one of many gestures well-suited to his white nationalist base.
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