In 1993’s Falling Down, Michael Douglas plays a Department of Defense engineer who rampages across Los Angeles after he’s laid off. When a cop finally catches him, he stammers, “I’m the bad guy? How did that happen? I did everything…

Whiplash! From JFK to Donald Trump: A Political Odyssey by Arnold L. Steinberg (Jameson Books, 640 pages, $39.95) If you want to understand how a new political movement can come from terra incognita to dominate American politics by the 1980s,…