Wrecking America

How Trump's Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All

Mark Green, Ralph Nader

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Year: 2020
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781510764422
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

"Read Fake President ….This book can help us replace Trump with truth."
—Gloria Steinem "Terrific new book. Fake President informs as it entertains."
-- Laurence Tribe ? An incisive & witty look at the cost of lies on American lives Wrecking America is most up-to-date look at Trump'sanything-goes "Fascism 2.0" presidency and campaign. Itreveals how Trump's daily "twistifications" (a Jefferson coinage) arekilling tens of thousands of Americans and millions of American jobs, polluting the air and public debate, selling out his country for personal gain...and trying to "Make the Confederacy Great Again, " as he preoccupies himself with golfing, seething, and tweeting.By four-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader and bestselling author Mark Green, Wrecking America organizes Trump's lies and lawbreaking issue-by-issue—focusing on Covid-19 and racial protests. This scathing, witty, accessible paperback is the last up-to-date book on "the Lyin' King" keyed to General Election voters and post-election America.This November will test our 231-year experiment in self-governance like no time since 1860 and 1932. Will it be re-election or realignment? AFascism for the few or Democracy for all? The wrecking ball of American Brownshirts or a new progressive backlash and era?

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Authors’ Note and Acknowledgments
• Prologue: Faking It
• Essay by Ralph Nader: Donald Trump vs. Our Democracy
• Your Own Bullshit Detector: 21 Favorite Trump Tricks to Distract, Deflect, Deceive
• 1. HEALTH INSURANCE “Obamacare is dead.” (No, it’s not.)
• 2. CLIMATE VIOLENCE —Fossil Fools Say, “What, Me Worry?”
• 3. WOMEN When not “grabbing them by the pussy,” Trump maintains that “Nobody has more respect for women than me. Nobody.”
• 4. RACE “I am the least racist person in the world.”
• 5. CRIME & GUNS Less Crime! More Guns!
• 6. THE RULE OF LAW(LESSNESS) “A Shocking Pattern of Illegality”
• 7. APPOINTEES Ethics, Schmethics
• 8. DUMB & DUMBER Contagious Incompetence
• 9. AGE OF RAGE—INCITING VIOLENCE “Knock the crap out of them, would you?”
• 10. MEDIA “The Enemy of the People”
• 11. SECRECY “We’re the most transparent administration ever, by far.”
• 12. BULLY’S PULPIT Teddy Roosevelt: “Bully!” Donald Trump: a Bully
• 13. WAR AND PEACE He’s No Metternich
• 14. PUTIN And His Siberian Candidate
• 15. SPRINGTIME FOR DICTATORS “Under Article II, I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”
• 16. ALLIES Diplomacy by Frenemy
• 17. IMMIGRATION “And some, I assume, are good people.”
• 18. THE TRUMP VIRUS “It is what it is.”
• WHOSE AMERICA? by Ralph Nader and Mark Green:
• Appendix—Article of Impeachment
• Endnotes
• Postscript
• About the Authors