Pity and Irrelevance: The True Fear Behind America's Reactionary Rage

Dan Stein, Steve Bannon, and Jeff Sessions are stuck in a past that never existed, and they want us to live there too

They’re not screaming because they’re strong. They’re screaming because they’re afraid, afraid of change, of truth, of irrelevance.

In recent years, figures such as Dan Stein, Steve Bannon, and Jeff Sessions have become louder, angrier, and more extreme. To hear them talk, one might think America is on the verge of collapse, that a sinister conspiracy of…