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The political turbulence caused by Donald Trump’s second term has most of the world on edge. Trump 2.0 promises to treat social science as something that must be attacked, demonized, and discredited, while fear, complacency and accommodation have meant sociologists have a poor track record of holding powers accountable. This book offers an elixir.
Condemn and Resist brings together a series of essays from leading sociologists in response to the first year of Trump 2.0 at a time when expert voices are essential for effective critical analysis of political and social climates. With chapters on inequality and public health, immigration, women’s health and abortion rights, climate change, education, LGBTQ+ rights, labor and organizing, and government and democracy, the contributors offer effective, efficient and accessible analyses with suggestions and strategies for action.
Rigorous, readable, and urgent, Condemn and Resist is essential for understanding the long-lasting impacts of Trump 2.0. Looking beyond a single moment, this book points toward the future of democracy, the necessity of rigorous scholarship, and the transformative power of social movements.
Higher education is not on the sidelines—it is ground zero in the fight for democracy. At a moment of direct political assault on universities, Condemn and Resist powerfully exposes how attacks on knowledge, labor, and public institutions are tightly linked. A vital and compelling contribution to the growing movement of workers, students, and communities refusing the dismantling of public education and democratic life.
— Todd Wolfson, President of the American Association of University Professors and Vice President of American Federation of Teachers
Corey Dolgon is Professor of Sociology at Stonehill College, USA. He is Past President of the Association for Humanist Sociology and the Society for the Study of Social Problems and has taught at Harvard and Clark Universities.
Introduction: Mapping, Condemning and Resisting Trump 2.0; Corey Dolgon
Chapter 1. Chronicle of a Foretold Mess: The 2024 Election and Trump 2.0; Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Chapter 2. Hollowed Out: Public Health Inequity and Social Welfare Retrenchment in the Trump Era; Katrinell M. Davis
Chapter 3. Executive Lawlessness and Unpopular Authoritarian Populism; Onwubiko Agozino
Chapter 4. Fear and Xenophobia: Trump’s First 100 Days and the Politicization of Immigration; Rogelio Sáenz and Selene M. Gomez
Chapter 5. Abortion Criminalization under Trump 2.0 and Lessons for Resistance; Deborah Billings and Saphronia Carson
Chapter 6. Dumbing Down or Rising Up: Education Must be Anti-Fascist; Corey Dolgon
Chapter 7. Despotism Unleashed: The Trump Administration’s Assault on Workers’ Rights and Why it Matters; Chris Rhomberg
Chapter 8. The Failed Presidency of Donald Trump: The Death of Democracy in Three Acts; Douglas Kellner
Chapter 9. Assaulting Our Environment and the Climate: Trump 2.0, Oil-Igarchy, and the Polluter-Industrial Complex; Daniel Faber
Chapter 10. Queer Rage: The Fight Against the Trump Regime’s Violent Agenda to Erase Trans and Queer People; Baker A. Rogers