Overcoming Trumpism
How to Save American Democracy
1st Edition
Published on 19. March 2026
392 pages
979-8-7651-2820-6 (ISBN)
Description
Defining Trumpism as an ideology that preceded Trump's election and will outlast his political career, this book explores solutions to problems that have long plagued contemporary American democracy.
Larry N. Gerston identifies deep-rooted pain points in U.S. governance that gave rise to and were exacerbated by Trumpism-bigotry, discrimination, voter disenfranchisement, and corruption-as well as key areas of government and society that Trumpism endangers-political institutions, civic culture and community, law and order, and public education.
Overcoming Trumpism offers a combination of solutions to preserve American democracy: repairing its battered institutions, assuring a free and responsible press, and restoring public participation in democratic society. Democracies are much more likely to disappear from imposition than war. As such, an invested and attentive public will be necessary to overcome Trumpism.
Larry N. Gerston identifies deep-rooted pain points in U.S. governance that gave rise to and were exacerbated by Trumpism-bigotry, discrimination, voter disenfranchisement, and corruption-as well as key areas of government and society that Trumpism endangers-political institutions, civic culture and community, law and order, and public education.
Overcoming Trumpism offers a combination of solutions to preserve American democracy: repairing its battered institutions, assuring a free and responsible press, and restoring public participation in democratic society. Democracies are much more likely to disappear from imposition than war. As such, an invested and attentive public will be necessary to overcome Trumpism.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
979-8-7651-2820-6 (9798765128206)
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04/2026
Bloomsbury Academic
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Person
Larry N. Gerston is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at San Jose State University, USA. He is an on-air political analyst for TV and radio and author of 14 books, including Reviving Citizenship Engagement: Policies to Renew National Community (2014).
Content
PART I: DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE
1. Understanding American Democracy
2. The Rise of Trumpism
PART II: THREATS TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY FROM TRUMPISM
3. The Explosion of Bigotry
4. Deviousness, Discrimination and Disenfranchisement
5. Undermined Institutions
6. Abandonment of Civic Culture and the Sense of Community
7. Justice, Law and Disorder: Stoked by Trump
8. Insurrection and Beyond
9. The Threat to Public Education
PART III: OVERCOMING TRUMPISM
10. Make Institutions Democratic Again
11. Assuring Media Integrity
12. Reinforcing Democracy For the People and By the People
13. What We Have to Lose
Index
1. Understanding American Democracy
2. The Rise of Trumpism
PART II: THREATS TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY FROM TRUMPISM
3. The Explosion of Bigotry
4. Deviousness, Discrimination and Disenfranchisement
5. Undermined Institutions
6. Abandonment of Civic Culture and the Sense of Community
7. Justice, Law and Disorder: Stoked by Trump
8. Insurrection and Beyond
9. The Threat to Public Education
PART III: OVERCOMING TRUMPISM
10. Make Institutions Democratic Again
11. Assuring Media Integrity
12. Reinforcing Democracy For the People and By the People
13. What We Have to Lose
Index
