Now Available: "The Last American President — a Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink"
My new book hit the stores today; I promise you'll find it interesting and useful...
If you care about the future of our country, you need to read this book.
The Last American President is not just another political analysis: it’s a wake-up call. I wrote this book because we’re at the most critical time for democracy in America since the Civil War. Whether our nation survives as a functioning republic depends on what we do next.
Donald Trump is not an accident of history. He was shaped into the perfect vessel for authoritarianism, and the forces that empowered him are still at work today. In this book I lay out how we got here and what we must do to stop America from sliding into permanent strongman rule.
Here’s what you’ll discover inside:
Trump’s authoritarian psychology: From his father Fred’s cruelty to Roy Cohn’s ruthless training, Trump learned that kindness is weakness and power means never apologizing. His entire presidency was the predictable expression of that lifelong pattern.
The billionaire machine behind him: Trump didn’t hijack the GOP; he delivered on decades of work by billionaires and corporate interests who turned the party into a tool for plutocracy. His 2017 tax cuts were a $1.9 trillion payoff, repeated again this year.
America’s empathy deficit: Democracy depends on compassion, but Trump embodies cruelty, mocking the disabled, separating families, and stripping healthcare without remorse. Without empathy, democratic government collapses.
A foreign policy of surrender: From siding with Putin over U.S. intelligence to praising dictators like Orbán and Kim Jong Un, Trump weakened our alliances and emboldened autocrats worldwide.
A roadmap for survival: Reform broken systems, Resist authoritarianism through unity and nonviolence, and Remember our history so the crimes of the past remain living lessons.
This isn’t just about Trump. It’s about whether We, the People, will be remembered as the generation that let democracy die or as the one that rose up to save it.
So buy this book. Read it. Share it. Because the future of American democracy is on the line, and together we can make sure Donald Trump is not the last American president.
I urge everyone to support Thom Hartmann,he is one of the few truth tellers left, that hasn't in some form gone over to the dark side
And off topic. I just found out that the government has been using the MQ9 Reaper drone, the same drone used in the Middle East and Afghanistan to target terrorists, to monitor protests, and facial recognition AI in conjunction.
All protestors should wear masks, however California's new anti mask law, will cause us to violate the law, while ICE will continue to ignore it.
Does anyone but a fool think that ICE or the Federal govenment is going to comply with a state law, or that the California Hiway Patrol or L.A. county Sheriff or city police will even touch a glove on ICE and CBP.
Thom--You may recall many of my posts over time that called out concerns with the basic system of a presidential republic. Of the types of democracies that slide into authoritarianism, those with a president as head of state seem to be more prone to such a decay.
So my question now is, where do we go from here? The concerning issue is that large sprawling empires tend to fragment not just turn into dictatorships. That happened with Rome (first split in two and then fragmentation into fiefdoms), the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, USSR, Prussian Empire, etc. Fragmentation is often not a pretty thing and can be quite violent.
I am not seeing any commentator who understands this path even proposing a sustainable devolved structure. That would be a great place for you to start a next book on "What's next?"