
These are the people, she writes, who do most of the dirty work and decision-making that goes into maintaining America’s systems of power.

In “Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America,” Ijeoma Oluo punches up rather than down, reckoning culturally, politically and historically with white men. Where white women voters caught hell, the 62 percent of white men who voted for Trump were offered what the feminist philosopher Kate Manne has called “ himpathy.” The 47 percent of white women who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 bore the brunt of liberal ire for their support of a man accused of sexual misconduct including rape. MEDIOCRE The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America By Ijeoma Oluo
