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Trumpocracy

David Frum·2018

The conservative-institutionalist account of democratic erosion, written from the right by someone arguing about institutions he has worked inside. Frum examines how democratic norms and one of the country's major parties came under strain, and what he sees as the cost to the constitutional order. Included for the view from a vantage the rest of the shelf does not occupy: the argument that the defense of democratic institutions is not the property of any one side.
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David Frum

A writer and former speechwriter who offers the conservative-institutionalist account of democratic erosion. Trumpocracy examines, from the right, how democratic norms and Republican institutions came under strain, and what the author sees as the costs. He writes as someone arguing about the health of institutions he has worked inside, for a readership across the usual lines.