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To the ramparts : how Bush and Obama paved the way for the Trump presidency, and why it isn't too late to reverse course / Ralph Nader ; edited by Jim Feast.

by Nader, Ralph, author.

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New York : Seven Stories Press, [2018]

Trump, Donald, 1946-

Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016.

Corporate power -- Political aspects -- United States.

United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.

9781609808471 (hardcover) :

1609808479 (hardcover)

304 pages ; 22 cm

A Seven Stories Press First edition.

Part I: The Democrats squander their Obama victory. Upgrading minimum wage of minimal interest to the Democratic Party ; When the people were in the streets, the Dems were behind their desks ; Trump not the only one to roll back regulations ; Obama's unconstitutional handling of the "war on terror" ; An interlude: Fund-raising ; The Democrats will be repeatedly corporatized unless they battle for a people's agenda ; When will Democrats stand by their convictions? ; Romney lost, yes, but Obama should have been cleaning his clock ; Thoughts on the inauguration ; Shutting down Keystone XL : a positive step ; What the Democrats have to get right ; Obama's and Democrats' weak appointments and policies pander to Wall Street ; Obama's bad ideas on free trade -- Part II: The presidential primaries. Hillary on her record ; The attempt to sideline Sanders ; The Trump rampage ; Trump and Sanders ; The media was letting us down in covering the election and the debates ; The primaries, structurally warped : the Democrats ; The primaries, glitter trumps substance : the Republicans -- Part III: The campaign for President under way. Duking it out ; The lessons of Trump's ascent -- Part IV: Trump in the driver's seat. Electoral shenanigans ; Trump's big reveal ; Trump in power, night falls in America ; His appointments were bad, his governing worse ; Resist on the barricades.

"America's #1 citizen Ralph Nader's latest book shows us how unchecked corporate power has led to the wrecking ball that is the Trump presidency. Nader brings together the outrages of the Trump administration with the key flaws and failures of the previous administrations--both Republican and Democratic--that have led our nation to its current precipice. It's all in the details and Ralph Nader knows them all. Trump didn't come out of nowhere. Bush and Obama led the way. Writing as a Washington, DC, activist and people's advocate for over fifty years--someone who has saved more lives and caused more impactful legislation to be enacted than almost any sitting president or legislator--Nader shows how Trump's crimes and misdemeanors followed the path of no resistance of the Obama, Bush and Clinton regimes, which ushered in the extreme rise of corporate power and the abandonment of the poor and middle classes."--Jacket.

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