Demolition Agenda

How Trump Tried to Dismantle American Government, and What Biden Needs to Do to Save It

New York : The New Press, [2022]

Format: Book

Description: 338 pages ; 24 cm

"In an original and compelling argument, Thomas McGarity shows how adding populists to the Republican's traditional base of free market ideologues and establishment Republicans allowed Trump to come dangerously close to achieving his goal of demolishing the programs that Congress put in place over the course of many decades to protect consumers, workers, communities, children, and the environment. The book also offers a blueprint for rebuilding the protective edifice and restoring the power of the American government to offer all Americans better lives"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: The protective edifice and the demolition crew -- The protective edifice -- The demolition crew -- Demolition strategies -- Appointing toxic leaders -- Dismantling agencies -- Denigrating expertise -- Stepping on the brake -- Shifting into reverse -- Sophisticated sabotage -- Promiscuous permitting -- Failure to enforce -- Impediments to demolition -- The demolition agenda at work : a case study -- COVID-19 -- Rebuilding the protective edifice -- Saving and enancing protective government.