A review of Naomi Klein\u2019s No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump\u2019s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need<\/p>\n
Naomi Klein understands that President Donald J. Trump is a<\/em> problem, but he is not the<\/em> problem.<\/p>\n In her new book, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trumps Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need<\/a><\/em>, Klein reminds us to pay attention not only to the style in which Trump governs (a multi-ring circus so routinely corrupt and corrosive that anti-democratic practices seem normal) but in whose interests he governs (the wealthy, those he believes to be the rightful winners in the capitalist cage match), while recognizing the historical forces that make his administration possible (decades of market-fundamentalist<\/a>\/neoliberal<\/a> rejection of the idea of a collective good).<\/p>\n Klein, one of the most prominent and insightful leftist writers in North America for two decades, analyzes how Trump\u2019s \u201cgenius\u201d for branding, magnified by his reality TV success, carried him to the White House. But while we may have been shocked by the election of Trump\u2014not just another celebrity but the ultimate \u201chollow brand\u201d that adds no tangible value to society\u2014she argues that we should not have been surprised:<\/p>\n Trump is not a rupture at all, but rather the culmination\u2014the logical end point\u2014of a great many dangerous stories our culture has been telling for a very long time. That greed is good. That the market rules. That money is what matters in life. That white men are better…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n