Directing the Whirlwind: Deconstruction, Distrust, and the Future of American Democracy - Volume 2 (New edition 1)

Donald J. Trump ran on a platform that, among other things, promised to 'drain the swamp' that is Washington, DC.

Part of that draining would entail what his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, would call 'the deconstruction of the administrative state.' Set in the political environment of 2020, with a raging pandemic and nationwide protests, this work examines the philosophy that guided the Trump Administration's approach and the mechanisms by which it sought to accomplish the deconstruction.