The Patronage State: March 15 – June 20, 2025 - Couverture souple

Vincent, Jim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1764683919 ISBN 13 : 9781764683913

Editeur : Vincent Press, 2026

Synopsis

Fourteen weeks. Ninety-eight days. Weeks 9 through 22 of Donald Trump's second presidential term, March 15 through June 20, 2025, recorded week by week.

The Trump Chronicles, Volume 2: The Patronage State documents the executive actions, agency directives, court rulings, and constitutional confrontations of the period in which the executive's installed disposition became the federal government's daily operating condition: the use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan nationals to a Salvadoran prison while a federal court's restraining order was being entered; broad-based tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act; billions in federal research funding withheld from Harvard and other universities; executive orders targeting law firms for representing the administration's opponents; the federalization of the California National Guard and active-duty Marines deployed to Los Angeles over the governor's objection; the deportation of a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras; the House passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at 1:12 a.m. on a single-vote margin; the No Kings demonstrations of June 14; and the targeted political violence of the same morning.

Each event is recorded with the date, actor, and mechanism, sourced to canonical reporting and federal documentary records. Inclusion requires corroboration by at least two canonical outlets, federal documentary support, or attribution to a single named source. A synthesis chapter draws the fourteen weeks into a single analytical claim — that the federal government's instruments of benefit and penalty came to run on a single axis of alignment with the office holder. Three appendices follow: a chronology of the fourteen weeks; a glossary of mechanisms; and the canonical source set on which the chronicle rests.

Written from Brisbane, Australia, by an American observer, this is the second volume of a continuing chronicle of the second Trump administration — a reference for citizens, scholars, journalists, and historians who need to follow the federal record without polemic or omission.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jim Vincent is an American writer based in Brisbane, Australia. Born and raised in the United States, where he lived for fifty years before moving abroad more than two decades ago, he writes about American democracy from the position of an American observer outside it. His children and grandchildren remain in the United States, which he still calls home.His writing combines the structural distance of an outside observer with the personal stake of an American whose family remains in the United States. The result is work focused not on partisan commentary but on the conditions, mechanisms, and trajectories of American constitutional government.His written work documents the present condition and possible restoration of American democracy. The American Renewal trilogy - American Renewal: A Manifesto for Resistance, A Blueprint for Restoration, And a Vision for Redemption; American Restoration: Rebuilding the Foundations of Democracy; and American Redemption: A Government of the People, by the People, for the People - sets out the strategic and historical case for democratic restoration. The Democracy Clock and its two companion Event Log volumes record and assess governance actions across the first year of the second Trump administration. Essays on Tyranny: Resisting Trump's Attack on Democracy collects shorter analytical work on the same subject. Earlier books include Every Day: Turning Betrayal Into Recovery and The Quiet Habit of Giving: Love, Loss and Repair.The Trump Chronicles is a continuing week-by-week documentary record of the second Trump administration, written for the full length of the term. Each volume covers a contiguous eight-week period in granular detail, from inauguration forward. New volumes appear on a continuing basis through the administration's tenure. The series is intended as a usable reference for citizens, scholars, journalists, and historians who need to follow the federal record without polemic or omission.Vincent is the founder of the independent publication Jim Vincent US, which addresses resisting authoritarianism and rebuilding democratic power. His writing appears at jimvincentus.substack.com. He publishes under his own imprint, Vincent Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vincent Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1764683919
• ISBN 13: 9781764683913
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 242
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