Minority Rule The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It

award winning author of Minority Rule. It's a book about voter suppression, anti-democratic methods that are in our midst

I will tell you again, the name of the book is Minority Rule

The Right Wing Attack on the Will of the People and the Fight to Resist It

you can find more of his reporting at MotherJones.com and the book is Minority Rule

Berman's new book, Minority Rule, connects the debates of the founding fathers and the resolutions they came up with to contemporary politics and issues like partisan gerrymandering, voting rights restrictions, and antiimmigration policies.

author of the new book Minority Rule.

He's the voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and has written about voting rights for years. His new book is called Minority Rule.

His new book is called Minority Rule. We'll be right back after a short break.

He's the author of Give Us the Ballot, The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, and the forthcoming book Minority Rule, The RightWing Attack on the Will of the People and the Fight to Resist It, which will be published in April.

Author Ari Berman on his new book, Minority Rule, the right wing attack on the will of the people and the fight to resist it.

If we're going to be at a moment in time when so many people are saying we have to understand the Constitution as it was intended, we have to understand that it was intended to check democracy, not to expand it, and we can't have such a view of the Constitution that says that all of these institutions are so amazing when it's so obvious that they made a lot of mistakes and that a lot of it needs to be corrected.

If we're going to be at a moment in time when so many people are saying we have to understand the constitution as it was intended, we have to understand that it was intended to check democracy, not to expand it.

And we can have such a view of the constitution that says that all of these institutions are so amazing when it's so obvious that they made a lot of mistakes and that a lot of it needs to be corrected.

As Ari Berman writes in his new book, to entrench and hold on to power, a shrinking conservative white minority is relentlessly exploiting the undemocratic features of America's political institutions.

Ari Berman joins me now, he's the National Voting Rights Correspondent from Mother Jones, his new book out today, Minority Rule, the right-wing attack on the will of the people and the fight to resist it.

It is out right now, it's a fantastic piece of work, sort of the unified theory I think of a lot of the politics at the moment. Let's start with Florida and abortion.

That's right, Republicans know abortion rights are popular so they've relied on all these counter-majoritarian institutions to take away abortion rights.

Exactly, and that's one of the main points I wanted to make in the book is that yes, Donald Trump is an accelerant of a broken political system, but he's also a product of a broken political system.

Ari Berman is the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones, as well as the author of the book Minority Rule, The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People and the Fight to Resist It. He joins me now.