[[PDF] DOWNLOAD FREE Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

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An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are
using 'the greatest deliberative body in the world' to hijack our democracy. Every major
decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears
the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively White,
predominantly male, and radically conservative minority of the American electorate to
impose its will on the rest of us. How did we get to this point? In Kill Switch, Adam
Jentleson argues that shifting demographics alone cannot explain how Mitch
McConnell harnessed the Senate and turned it into a powerful weapon of minority rule.
As Jentleson shows, since the 1950s, a free-flowing body of relative equals has
devolved into a rigidly hierarchical, polarized institution, with both Democrats and
Republicans to blame. The current GOP has merely used the methods pioneered by its
predecessors though to newly extreme ends. In a work for fans of How Democracies
Die and even Master of the Senate, Jentleson makes clear that, without a reevaluation
of Senate practices - starting with ending the filibuster - we face the prospect of
permanent minority rule in America. em em