How We Win the Civil War

Steve Phillips’s first book, Brown Is the New White, helped shift the national conversation around race and electoral politics, earning a spot on the New York Times bestseller list and launching Phillips into the upper ranks of trusted observers of the nation’s changing demographics and their implications for our political future.Now, in How We Win the Civil War, Phillips warns that the Confederates never stopped fighting the Civil War, that Republicans are taking full advantage of this reality, and Democrats are in denial. He charts the way forward in the post-Trump era, arguing that progressives must recognize the true nature of the fight we’re in—an existential battle between those who wish to make America a multiracial democracy and those clinging to the concept that this is fundamentally a white nation.Phillips makes clear that the way to win is by learning lessons from key progressive leaders and organizations in places where Democrats have recently won, turning formerly solid red states—like Georgia, Arizona, and Virginia—purple or blue.With his trademark blend of political analysis and historical argument, Phillips lays out razor-sharp prescriptions geared toward strengthening a new multiracial democracy and ridding our nation of white supremacy for good.