Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic (2018) is a book by conservative writer David Frum, a speechwriter for President George W. Bush. Frum argues that Donald Trump's presidency corrupted American institutions, civic norms and the Republican Party's own standards of conduct. He describes how enablers, opportunists and weak constitutional checks deepened the damage, and urges conservatives to defend those habits rather than excuse them.

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Fareed Zakaria: “My book of the week is David Frum's "Trumpocracy." Yes, this is an anti-Trump book, but it is written by a diehard conservative whose objections to Trump at core are not about his politics and policies, some of which the author agrees with, nor about his bad manners and vulgarity; it is about the way Donald Trump is eroding democratic norms in the world's oldest constitutional republic. The chapter on economic corruption, "Plunder," is worth the price of the book.”