LEADER 05052cam a2200589 i 4500001 99130636647906421 005 20240725053928.0 008 231029t20242024enk b 001 0 eng^^ 010 2023037866 019 1392165406 020 9781032628905 |qhardcover 020 1032628901 |qhardcover 020 9781032628813 |qpaperback 020 1032628812 |qpaperback 020 |z9781032629087 |qelectronic book 035 (OCoLC)on1392163624 040 LBSOR |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dYDX 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 050 00 E912 |b.A24 2024 082 00 973.933 |223/eng/20231122 100 1 Abel, Richard L., |eauthor. 245 10 How autocrats abuse power : |bresistance to Trump and Trumpism / |cRichard L. Abel. 246 30 Resistance to Trump and Trumpism 264 1 Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, NY : |bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group, |c2024. 264 4 |c©2024 300 xvii, 183 pages ; |c25 cm. 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 490 0 Defending American democracy 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Dramatis personae -- How autocrats use power -- The politics of resentment -- Politicizing criminal justice -- The fate of law. 520 "Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of both Trump's efforts to erode democracy's essential elements and opposition to those efforts. This book is about the threat of autocracy, which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage. Autocrats blur or breach the separation of powers, use executive orders to bypass the legislature, pack the courts, replace career prosecutors with political appointees, abuse the pardon power, and claim immunity from the law. They seek to hobble opposition from civil society by curtailing speech and assembly, tolerating and even encouraging vigilante violence, and attacking the media. As this book demonstrates, Trump followed the autocrat's playbook in many ways. He was a huckster of hate, aiming his vitriol at women and racial minorities, and making attacks on immigrants the focus of his 2016 campaign, as well as his first years in office. Nevertheless, his rhetoric and policies encountered widespread opposition - from religious leaders, business executives, lawyers and bar associations, and civil servants. His executive orders (on which he relied) were almost all struck down by courts: including the first two "Muslim bans," the detention of children and their separation from parents, the diversion of military funds to build the border wall, the insertion of a citizenship question in the Census, and limits on asylum. Just as Trump sought to weaponize the criminal justice system against his political opponents, so he manipulated it to defend his cronies, derailing some of their prosecutions. Trump also intervened in courts martial and criminal prosecutions of those convicted of war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and those accused of desertion and terrorism. Again, however, there was resistance: as some career prosecutors withdrew from cases or resigned when subjected to political pressure and federal courts convicted all of Trump's allies- even though the president went on to use his unreviewable pardon power. This book, then, documents the abuses that are characteristic of autocracy, and assesses the various forms of resistance to them. This definitive account and analysis of Trumpism in action, as well as the resistance to it, will appeal to scholars, students and others with interests in politics, populism and the rule of law; and, more specifically, to those concerned with resisting the threat that autocracy poses to liberal democracy"-- |cProvided by publisher. 600 10 Trump, Donald, |d1946- 600 17 Trump, Donald, |d1946- |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00174117 651 0 United States |xPolitics and government |y2017-2021. 650 0 Abuse of administrative power |zUnited States. 650 0 Despotism |zUnited States. 651 6 États-Unis |xPolitique et gouvernement |y2017-2021. 650 6 Excès de pouvoir (Droit administratif) |zÉtats-Unis. 650 6 Despotisme |zÉtats-Unis. 650 7 Abuse of administrative power. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00794802 650 7 Despotism. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00891415 650 7 Politics and government. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 United States. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 2017-2021 |2fast 776 08 |iOnline version:Abel, Richard L. |tHow autocrats abuse power |dAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 |z9781032629087 |w(DLC) 2023037867 910 |cC0703mon |d3110-07 |gYBP |h59220 914 (OCoLC)on1392163624 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240717 |eprocessed |f1392163624 980 20423005 |f59220 |i170.00 |j139.40 |n40032256129 982 |cf |q32101119710000