Our Own Worst Enemies: The Violent Style in American Politics Foreign Affairs
Robert A. Pape  |  September 23, 2024

CPOST Director Robert Pape explains why the upcoming election is not only the most consequential in our lifetimes, but also the most dangerous, in his latest article published in Foreign Affairs.

"But all this commentary overlooks the predominant structural dynamic driving the new era of violence....The principal danger to the United States is not any out-of-control technology or fringe militia group. It is not economic grievances run amok. It is not even Trump, who is as much a symptom of what ails the United States as he is a cause. Instead, the greatest source of danger comes from a cultural clash over the nature of the United States’ identity—one with profound implications for who gets to be a citizen. Its key actors are not isolated radicals but large numbers of ordinary Americans."

Read the article here.