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Subtle Tools - The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump (Hardcover)
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Subtle Tools - The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump (Hardcover)
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How policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump
and turned on American democracy itself In the wake of the
September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a
wave of overt policies to fight the nation's enemies. Unseen and
undetected by the public, however, another set of tools was brought
to bear on the domestic front. In this riveting book, one of
today's leading experts on the US security state shows how these
"subtle tools" imperiled the very foundations of democracy, from
the separation of powers and transparency in government to
adherence to the Constitution. Taking readers from Ground Zero to
the Capitol insurrection, Karen Greenberg describes the subtle
tools that were forged under George W. Bush in the name of
security: imprecise language, bureaucratic confusion, secrecy, and
the bypassing of procedural and legal norms. While the power and
legacy of these tools lasted into the Obama years, reliance on them
increased exponentially in the Trump era, both in the fight against
terrorism abroad and in battles closer to home. Greenberg discusses
how the Trump administration weaponized these tools to separate
families at the border, suppress Black Lives Matter protests, and
attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Revealing the
deeper consequences of the war on terror, Subtle Tools paints a
troubling portrait of an increasingly undemocratic America where
disinformation, xenophobia, and disdain for the law became the new
norm, and where the subtle tools of national security threatened
democracy itself.
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