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TRUMPOCRACY - The corruption of the American Republic


 
   

Trumpocracy is a study not of Trump’s personality, but of his power. Trumpocracy is a study of the Trump presidency’s enablers and supporters: in Congress, in the Republican party, in the media, and among ordinary voters. It is a study of what Trump is doing to American democracy and to America’s standing in the world.

Trumpocracy details the wrongdoing of this administration so that patriotic Americans can act to prevent worse. Trumpocracy is written not just to warn, but to inspire.


Reviews

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Frum stacks the deck like a criminal prosecutor.

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Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books

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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 Greenberg, Yale Alumni Magazine

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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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Louis A. Delvoie, The Kingston Whig-Standard

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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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Concepción de León, New York Times

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

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Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs

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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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Glenn C. Altschuler, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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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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Luke Savage, Jacobin

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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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Lloyd Green, The Guardian

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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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Sassan K. Darian, Trump-Russia 2018

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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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Gene Healy, The American Conservative

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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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James Baxter, Policy Magazine

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

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Jacob Sherman, Library Journal

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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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Stephanie Topacio Long, Bustle

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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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Janet Revesz, The Independent

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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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Andrew Gimson, Conservative Home

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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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Arthur Goldhammer, The American Prospect

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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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Dean Poling, Valdosta Daily Times

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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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Chris Johns, The Irish Times

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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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Matt Henderson, Winnipeg Free Press

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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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Steven W. Beattle, Quill & Quire

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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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Justin Webb, The Times (London)

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

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Davis Richardson, Observer

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

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John R. Coyne Jr., The Washington Times

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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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Susan G. Cole, NOW Magazine

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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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Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books

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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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David Rennie, The Economist

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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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Bill Myers, Washington Examiner

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

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David V. Hawpe, Louisville Courier-Journal

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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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Adrian Wooldridge, New York Times

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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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Carols Lozada, Washington Post

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

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Kenneth Silber, Kenneth Silber's Blog

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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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Kapil Komireddi, The National (UAE)

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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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Edward Luce, Financial Times

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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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Ted Lehmann, Ted Lehmann's Blog

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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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Alex Good, Toronto Star

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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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David Shribman, Globe and Mail

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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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John Diaz, San Francisco Chronicle

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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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Jennifer Szalai, New York Times

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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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Publishers Weekly

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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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Kirkus Review

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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...

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Ilene Cooper, Booklist

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