Thirteen Cracks: Repairing American Democracy After Trump Lichtman Allan
Thirteen Cracks: Repairing American Democracy After Trump Lichtman Allan America's founders feared a president like Donald Trump. But Trump pushed almost every one of the Framers' safeguards to its…
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Thirteen Cracks: Repairing American Democracy After Trump Lichtman Allan
America's founders feared a president like Donald Trump. But Trump pushed almost every one of the Framers' safeguards to its limit--most held, but some broke under the weight of presidential abuses even the Framers did not foresee. Through the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, they erected a fortified but constrained government to secure the benchmarks of our democracy and established the guardrails designed to protect it.
Historian Allan J. Thirteen Cracks will be the first book to expose the most vulnerable areas in our democracy, explain in historical context how President Trump uniquely and outrageously exploited these weak spots, and propose a fix for each challenge. Lichtman argues that Trump has put us at a pivot point in our history, where the survival of American democracy is at stake.
But this is also an historic opportunity to shore up the vulnerabilities and to strengthen