The Politics of Regime Change - Donald Trump and the Reinvention of the Imperial Presidency #984080

AT 9:47 P.M. ON NOVEMBER 8, 2016, THE MAP CHANGED. This is the book that explains how — and why it will never change back.

The Politics of Regime Change is the political account of the Trump era that goes beyond the personalities and the scandals to examine the machinery: the coalition, the communications architecture, the governing-as-campaigning model, the media ecosystem, the base-as-veto dynamic, and the electoral realignment that permanently redrew the geography of American political competition. Caroline P. Adler gives you the political science behind the political drama.

What was at stake was the future of both parties — and the map on which all future American elections will be fought.
The forgotten voter who delivered Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan was not a mystery. He was a constituency that decades of broken promises had made available, and a candidate who understood what no prior Republican had: that the coalition's loyalty was personal rather than ideological, that authenticity was the only credential that mattered, and that the violations of political convention that every professional said would sink the campaign were, for the base, the proof that he meant it.
From the media ecosystem that made the outsider's message reach tens of millions without the institutional press, to the rally as the primary governing instrument, to the permanent campaign model that erased the line between governing and politics forever — Adler traces the political architecture of the Trump era with the precision of an analyst and the narrative drive of a first-rate journalist.

The full political reckoning. No partisan shortcuts.
This is the book for readers who want to understand the political competition they will be living with for the next generation — the realigned map, the transformed parties, the new rules of American electoral politics. Fair to both parties. Sourced throughout.

For readers of Nate Silver, Michael Barone, and Ron Brownstein — this is the definitive political analysis of the era's most significant electoral transformation. Scroll up and get the political account that matches the moment. The map has changed. This book shows you the new one.