Dream or Nightmare

In an era of political theatre, reason alone won’t cut it.

Dream or Nightmare is a book of left wing strategy like no other: It proposes that, to compete with the right, progressives cannot depend on reason and hard fact. They must also deploy drama in the battle of ideas.

Donald Trump's presidency has shown how this is done, albeit to ends that are deplorable. Abandoning logic and truth, the Fabulist-in -hief conjures up spectacle to energize his base. Troops are dispatched to counter a fict...