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Added a section called "Controversies."
In a review in [[Chronicles Magazine]],<ref>https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/sounding-the-trump/</ref> Clyde Wilson, a retired professor of history at the University of South Carolina, called “The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed,” the “best extended analysis yet published of the Trump phenomenon,” commenting on Mercer’s “Menckenesque” turn of phrases.<ref>https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/sounding-the-trump/</ref>
In a review in [[Chronicles Magazine]],<ref>https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/sounding-the-trump/</ref> Clyde Wilson, a retired professor of history at the University of South Carolina, called “The Trump Revolution: The Donald's Creative Destruction Deconstructed,” the “best extended analysis yet published of the Trump phenomenon,” commenting on Mercer’s “Menckenesque” turn of phrases.<ref>https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/sounding-the-trump/</ref>
==Controversies==
Referring to Mercer’s book, ''Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa,''<ref>https://en.everybodywiki.com/Into_the_Cannibal%27s_Pot</ref> Ben Mathis-Lilley, a writer for ''Slate''<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_(magazine)</ref> accused Mercer of racism, in August of 2018, referring to her as "a real piece of work, racism-wise! ...Mercer thinks that getting rid of apartheid has been bad for South Africa—and that, broadly, white people shouldn’t support democracy in countries in which they’re a minority population, because they will be exterminated by nonwhite savages."<ref>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/fired-white-house-speechwriter-panel-black-south-africans-like-cannibals.html</ref> (Mercer had been invited to the 2016 Mencken conference,<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20160915214132/http:/hlmenckenclub.org:80/2016-conference</ref> but had not attended it, with Robert Wenzel taking her place.<ref>http://hlmenckenclub.org/2016-texts</ref>
Mercer countered the Slate accusation in a ''Quarterly Review''<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterly_Review</ref> column<ref>http://www.quarterly-review.org/slate's-slanders/</ref>, noting that “Into the Cannibal’s Pot” condemns apartheid, calling it “one of the world’s most retrogressive colonial systems (p. 65).” “Apartheid showed a gross disrespect for human rights and international law (p. 222).” Mercer further explained that what she condemns in the book is not democracy per se, but “unrestrained majoritarianism” or “simple majority rule.”<ref>http://www.quarterly-review.org/slate's-slanders/</ref>
On July 7th, 2020 a Twitter exchange arose between the editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller, Geoffrey Ingersoll,<ref>https://twitter.com/GPIngersoll/status/1280550118031273986</ref> and “Sleeping Giants,” a left-leaning account that supports the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The latter accused the former of publishing the works of “White Nationalists.”<ref>https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1280547265153810438</ref>
Ingersoll responded by denying said claims, specifically calling out Ilana Mercer by name claiming that she “never stepped foot in our office,”<ref>https://twitter.com/GPIngersoll/status/1280550118031273986</ref> after which conservative commentator Patrick Howley interjected, mocking Ingersoll and stating that “Ilana is out of your league, pal.”<ref>https://twitter.com/HowleyReporter/status/1280564553647108096</ref>
The dust-up is a clear reference to a 2017 article for the SPLC’s “Hate Watch,” titled “The Daily Caller Has A White Nationalism Problem,” that asserts that The Daily Caller, a right-wing website, has a history of working with and publishing White Nationalists and Alt-Right figures such as Peter Brimelow, John Derbyshire, Jason Kessler, Scott Geer and Ilana Mercer among others.<ref>https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/08/16/daily-caller-has-white-nationalist-problem</ref> In referring to a 2017 H.L. Mencken Club conference, the SPLC failed to mention that Mercer was not even in attendance.<ref>http://hlmenckenclub.org/2017-conference</ref>
==Political Philosophy==
==Political Philosophy==