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Demolition Agenda - How Trump Tried to Dismantle American Government, and What Biden Needs to Do to Save It (Hardcover)
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Demolition Agenda - How Trump Tried to Dismantle American Government, and What Biden Needs to Do to Save It (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R551
Discovery Miles 5 510
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The first comprehensive account of the Trump administration's
efforts to destroy our government institutions, by the man Ralph
Nader says "writes authoritatively and with revealing detail about
important topics that few others cover" "Tom McGarity writes
authoritatively and with revealing detail about important topics
that few others cover." -Ralph Nader Koch Industries spent $3.1
million in the first three months of the Trump administration,
largely to ensure confirmation of Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA.
By July 2018, more than sixteen federal inquiries were pending into
Pruitt's mismanagement and corruption. But Pruitt was just the
first in a long line of industry-friendly, incompetent, and
destructive agency heads put in place by the Trump administration
in its effort to dismantle the federal government's protective
edifice. Remember Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, who, before
he faced eighteen separate federal inquiries and was fired, made a
deal with Halliburton to build a brewery on land that Zinke owned
in Montana? Or how about Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who
rescinded requirements that high-hazard trains install special
braking systems, weakened standards for storing natural gas, and
lengthened the hours that truck drivers could be on the road
without a break, even as she failed for two years to divest her
interest in a road materials manufacturer? And then there were Rick
Perry, Betsy DeVos, Sonny Perdue, Andrew Puzder . . . the list goes
on. In an original and compelling argument, Thomas McGarity shows
how adding populists to the Republican's traditional base of free
market ideologues and establishment Republicans allowed Trump to
come dangerously close to achieving his goal of demolishing the
programs that Congress put in place over the course of many decades
to protect consumers, workers, communities, children, and the
environment. Finally, McGarity offers a blueprint for rebuilding
the protective edifice and restoring the power of the American
government to offer all Americans better lives.
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