What happens when power stops serving the public and starts serving grudges?
Vengeance politics isn't just loud. It isn't just ugly. It's structurally dangerous.
When leaders govern for payback, institutions bend, norms collapse, and democracy becomes a weapon instead of a system. Accountability turns into retaliation. Justice becomes selective. And the rule of law starts to crack.
In Vengeance Politics, Zo Roberts breaks down how grievance-driven leadership erodes democratic stability, why it spreads, and what it costs when it takes hold.
This isn't about left versus right. It's about what happens when governing becomes personal.
And why, if it continues, democracies don't just struggle.
They fall.