This volume of lectures and essays, originally published on the World Socialist Web Site from 2015 to 2026, is an unequaled analysis of the social and political conditions that transformed Donald Trump from a real estate huckster and casino con-artist into the US president -- events that were analyzed in real time.
In a society governed by billionaires, corporate predators, military-intelligence operatives and political swindlers, and which has now entered the opening stages of a world war, the criminal and anti-democratic methods of imperialism are deployed at home as abroad. Although the fascist nature of the administration is increasingly recognized, most analyses continue to focus on the person of Trump—his psychology, his temperament, his supposed uniqueness. The deeper causes of the collapse of American democracy are ignored.
