There is a paradox at the heart of the recent anxieties regarding democratic failure in America. As noted in , there is a pervasive sense that trust in democracy is eroding and American democracy may be collapsing. Yet there has been no shortage of democratic energy and mass-movement mobilization in recent years; it has been present in the Occupy movement, the Tea Party, the Movement for Black Lives, and more recently the Women’s March, the March for Our Lives, Families Belong Together, and in the overall upsurge of protest activity since the election of 2016. At the same time, these instances of progressive mobilization under the rubric of popular “resistance” to the inequalities of the current moment feel very much outgunned by a parallel and terrifying upsurge of mobilization by white supremacists, the rise of “alt-right,” the continued policy influence of big business, and the forces of “exclusionary populism” activated by Donald Trump’s presidency.