![]() ![]() ![]() And leaders who seek to forge coalitions are labeled sellouts. ![]() ![]() Political parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the skeptical. Movements for justice build barriers to entry, instead of on-ramps. Debates are framed in moralistic terms, with enemies battling the righteous. Americans increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change things. “Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in America-by refusing to write others off, building more welcoming movements, and rededicating ourselves to the work of changing minds.”-Robert B. An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy-from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more-by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York Times columnist ![]()
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