The timing of Steven Hahn’s latest book, Illiberal America: A History, is no coincidence. Published in 2024, the same year Donald Trump was elected president a second time despite instigating an insurrectionist riot at the White House on January 6, 2021, Illiberal America is a book that bears the indelible mark of the Trump era. It is an admirable attempt to comprehend and explain what has seemed incomprehensible and inexplicable to most good liberals: How could Donald Trump, the definitive illiberal figure of our times, win the presidency (twice) in a liberal nation like the United States?[i] Illiberal America should Read more