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Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic mounts an impassioned case against the president on almost every count imaginable...

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David Frum’s Trumpocracy, which is still on the bestseller lists in Canada and the United States, is a thoroughly depressing account of Donald Trump’s rise to power and of his exercise of that power.

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[Frum] argues that any corruption within President Trump’s administration is a symptom of a system in which political figures have been able to leverage their political influence for financial gain.

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This book distinguishes itself by its literary quality and its intellectual breadth.

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Exploiting the growing contempt for “political correctness,” Mr. Frum writes, Mr. Trump offers instead “a culture of impunity.”

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For Frum, the Trump presidency is primarily about the “aggrandizement of one domineering man” at the expense of the public interest.

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[Frum] laments what he views as “the corruption of the American Republic” and painstakingly catalogs the threats he sees posed by Trump to America, liberal democracy and Europe.

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David Frum’s timely and prescient book “Trumpocracy” is a vital read in not solely understanding the baseness that is Donald Trump — but most importantly those who have enabled him...

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The next president need only be half as much an apparent crook or clown to credibly claim to have lifted the moral tone.

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Taken at its best, Frum’s Trumpocracy is a hopeful book that counts on Americans being willing and able to admit their mistakes, fix them and build a better country.

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Highly recommended for anyone who cares about the republic and its future.

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Frum looks at the long-term impact of a Trump presidency and the role of the public.

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Frum’s analysis of what he terms this “repressive plutocracy” now in charge makes cogent and compelling reading and should concern anyone who cares about the future of democracy.

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[Frum] conveys with unusual vividness and perspicacity the agony inflicted by Trump on upright North American conservatives.

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Frum does not stop with the class of wealthy buccaneers keen to fill their own pockets.... He excoriates the “millions of rank-and-file Republicans” who embraced the norm-busting front-runner.

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He makes the case that Trump is undermining American faith in institutions from elections to media to security and law-enforcement organizations while his family “plunders” the powers of the presidency and increases their finances.

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Frum’s book is interesting not only because it describes in terrifying detail the plunder. He also explains...just why Trump won the election.

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Frum centres most of his blame on the Republican Party, namely its elites, and the media outlets and corporations which deflect truth and insert and trumpet alternative facts.

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Trump has, in word and deed, not only sullied the high office to which he was elected, but called into question the resilience of American government itself.

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[Frum's] analysis of Trump’s presidency is informed by a deep knowledge of how other Republicans have behaved and thought in the recent past.

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David Frum’s Trumpocracy ... argues the Trump administration is subverting American democracy into an authoritarian regime.

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David Frum sets out, rhetorically, to rescue a complacent nation from mortal peril.

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Frum methodically explains how Trump did what everyone thought was impossible — win the presidency — and the impact his victory has had on the American political landscape.

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Frum is a skilled polemicist, capable of producing lines that carry rhetorical precision and force but stop short of screaming for attention.

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Mr Frum describes the president in near-animal terms, as sniffing out his opponents’ weaknesses—“low energy”, “little”, “crooked”—in the same way that he instinctively sensed the weak point in modern politics.

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Frum views Trump the way Gibbon viewed Commodus — a bloated, corrupt (and corrupting) figure who exploited but also illuminated and eventually embodied the structural weaknesses of the empire.

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It’s a literary Gatling gun trained on today’s politics by an experienced marksman.

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The central theme in Frum’s excellent new book, “Trumpocracy,” which draws on his Atlantic articles, is what Trump’s career tells us about the deeper structural problems of America in general, and conservative America in particular.

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David Frum sees a presidency bent not on the ideological deconstruction of the state but on its wreckage and exploitation — a system he calls “Trumpocracy.”

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A valuable, cogent analysis that will provoke thinking and rethinking.

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Trumpocracy is an essential book for our times — and not only for Americans. An incisive examination of creeping authoritarianism and an impassioned call to arms.

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The party’s gatekeepers have decided to swallow their doubts. “It is their public actions, despite their private qualms, that sustain Trumpocracy,” writes Frum.

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David Frum has written an erudite, scholarly, entertaining, coruscating, and, ultimately, both deeply scary and hopeful book.

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An angry assessment by a die-hard “Never Trumper” of what Trump’s use and abuse of power is doing to America’s political culture.

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A breathless but also breathtaking compilation of the mendacity and mistakes of the first year of the Trump ascendancy, a J’accuse for the second decade of the 21st century

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“Trumpocracy” is a must-read for Americans who are in denial about the threat to democracy posed by a president absorbed in narcissism and recklessly indifferent to the institutions and norms of ethics and propriety...

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Frum relishes going on the attack, and he castigates members of a Republican establishment who have lain any pretensions to moral rectitude on the altar of a tax cut.

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Frum (The Right Man), an Atlantic senior editor, charts the erosion of democratic principles over the course of Donald Trump’s campaign and first year in office...

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The conservative stalwart takes measure of the current administration and finds it sadly wanting—and dangerous, and immoral, and….

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With precision and even eloquence, Frum details how the Trump campaign and administration has damaged American institutions and the American psyche...