Robert Tracinski has written a book detailing "in breadth and detail, the story of America’s political devolution from a free society to an authoritarian dictatorship."
They say you shouldn't ever take Trump literally, but you should at all times take him seriously. Tracinski's book, released this week, does that.
This book lays out, systematically and dispassionately, the five prongs of this attack on the American system: stealing from Congress the power to control government spending and to decide what government agencies exist; creating a police state that can seize and imprison people without due process and occupy our cities; defying the courts and controlling the legal profession; imposing centralized control over the economy with arbitrary powers to tax and regulate; dominating independent institutions like universities and the press.Steven Pinker reckons it is "the best short summary of how Trump is turning the US into a dictatorship.”
The book was released on "Constitution Day, commemorating the day 238 years ago when the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the final document.
"It seems an appropriate day to warn people that the current president is busy putting the Constitution through the shredder. This day is also known as Citizenship Day, a day to remember all the immigrants over the centuries who have enriched this country by becoming citizens—which also seems an appropriate occasion for a protest against the current US administration."
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This is a wonderful objective book, no strident nonsense, just cold hard facts.
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