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Democracy under Fire - Donald Trump and the Breaking of American History (Hardcover)
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Democracy under Fire - Donald Trump and the Breaking of American History (Hardcover)
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Donald Trump's presidency offered Americans a dire warning
regarding the vulnerabilities in their democracy, but the threat is
broader and deeper-and looms still. "January 6th was a disgrace,"
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell solemnly intoned at the
end of Donald Trump's second impeachment trial on February 13,
2021. As to the culprit, Senator McConnell declared that "there is
no question that President Donald Trump is practically and morally
responsible." Before Trump even ran for President, his disdain for
the rules, procedures, and norms of American democracy and the US
Constitution was well-known and led prominent Republicans to
repudiate him as "unfit" for the GOP nomination. Given the
clear-eyed assessment of candidate Trump, why did the Republican
Party nominate him as its presidential candidate in 2016 and then
stand by him during the next four years? Much of the attention paid
to Trump's rise to power has focused on his corrosive personality
and divisive style of governing. But he alone is not the problem.
The vulnerability is much broader and deeper. The ascendance of
Trump is the culmination of nearly 250 years of political reforms
that gradually ceded party nominations to small cliques of
ideologically-motivated party activists, interest groups, and
donors. Trump's rise is not an aberration but a predictable outcome
of trends deeply rooted in American history but which accelerated
in the last few decades. In Democracy under Fire, Lawrence Jacobs
provides a highly engaging, if disturbing, history of political
reforms since the late-eighteenth century that over time
dangerously weakened democracy, widened political inequality as
well as racial disparities, and rewarded toxic political
polarization. Jacobs' searing indictment of political reformers
concludes with recommendations to restrain the unbridled ambition
of politicians who thrive on division and instead generate broad
citizen engagement with tangible policy making.
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