Democracy under Fire

How did democracy become so vulnerable in America? Donald Trump is a shrill warning of the political system's fragility, but he alone is not the problem. Trump's presidency is the culmination of a series of political decisions since the late 18th century that ceded party nominations to small cliques of ideologues able to exploit party nomination systems. Updated in this new paperback edition to account for the 2024 primary election cycle, Democracy under Fire provides a readable, if disturbing, history of American democracy and proposes recommendations to restore it.