“The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots.”
“One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past forty years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out (…) Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion.”
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America, by Richard Rorty, 1998
