The Decline of American Democracy in The Age of Trump: An Expatriate's Lament

By Dan Shanahan

Most thinking people in America today find themselves in shock over the results of the elections of 2016, a feeling that only intensifies with each passing day of the Trump presidency - words which they find it difficult to say, write, or even think. We search for the hows, the whys and especially the wherefores of this incomprehensible development. And rightly so. Not since the secession of slave-holding states in the days before the Civil War have the foundations of American democracy been so threatened. Not since the Nixon era has progressive, enlightened political thinking seemed so bewilderingly lost on a landscape so antithetical to everything reason and good will dictate. And never before has the future teetered so dangerously on the edge of an abyss into which we could all be pitched. This is a discussion of the whys and hows - especially with regard to the historical underpinnings of what we are witnessing - and the outlook those underpinnings suggest for the future of American democracy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1521180563
• ISBN13: 9781521180563
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"