One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported
Published By: St. Martin’s Press
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A call to action from three of Washington’s premier political scholars, “One Nation After Trump” offers the definitive work on the threat posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it.
American democracy was never supposed to give the nation a president like Donald Trump. We have never had a president who gave rise to such widespread alarm about his lack of commitment to the institutions of self-government, to the norms democracy requires, and to the need for basic knowledge about how government works. We have never had a president who raises profound questions about his basic competence and his psychological capacity to take on the most challenging political office in the world.
Yet if Trump is both a threat to our democracy and a product of its weaknesses, the citizen activism he has inspired is the antidote. The reaction to the crisis created by Trump’s presidency can provide the foundation for an era of democratic renewal and vindicate our long experiment in self-rule.
The award-winning authors of “One Nation After Trump” explain Trump’s rise and the danger his administration poses to our free institutions. They also offer encouragement to the millions of Americans now experiencing a new sense of citizenship and engagement and argue that our nation needs a unifying alternative to Trump’s dark and divisive brand of politics ― an alternative rooted in a New Economy, a New Patriotism, a New Civil Society, and a New Democracy. “One Nation After Trump” is the essential book for our era, an unsparing assessment of the perils facing the United States and an inspiring road map for how we can reclaim the future.
About the Authors
Norman Ornstein is a resident scholar at AEI and a contributing editor and columnist for National Journal and The Atlantic. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism” (Basic Books, 2012).
E. J. Dionne Jr. is a columnist for The Washington Post, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Why the Right Went Wrong” (Simon & Schuster, 2016).
Thomas E. Mann is a resident scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism” (Basic Books, 2012).
