1st Edition
How Autocrats Attack Expertise Resistance to Trump and Trumpism
By Richard L. Abel
Copyright 2024
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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Chronicling and analyzing resistance to the threat that autocracy poses to American liberal democracy, this book provides the definitive account of Trump’s assault on truth and his populist attacks on expertise, as well as scientific and legal opposition to them.
This book is about the threat of autocracy, which antedated Donald Trump and will persist after he leaves the stage. Pandering to... Read more
Preface vi
Acronyms ix
Dramatis Personae xii
1 The Autocrats’ War on Expertise 1
2 Politicizing Professional Expertise: The Trump Administration’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic 10
3 The COVID-19 Pandemic After the 2020 Election 96
4 A Permanent War on Science? 162
References 189
Index 194
Biography
Richard L. Abel is Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA, USA.
