Fascists, Not Today - How Executive Power Was Seized, Normalized, and What Happens Next #987992

How does a democracy hollow out from within?
In Fascists, Not Today: How Executive Power Was Seized, Normalized, and What Happens Next, analytical non-fiction author Harry R. Schroeder delivers a powerful, non-partisan structural analysis of the modern American imperial presidency. Moving far beyond surface-level political theater, Schroeder exposes the systemic design flaws and decades of incremental compromises that transformed a constitutional system meant to balance power into one that dangerously concentrates it.
Rather than focusing on a single political figure or assigning partisan blame, this sharp and clear-eyed book serves as a structural autopsy of American institutional decline. Schroeder charts the erosion of democratic guardrails through four distinct phases: the personnel strategies designed to dismantle the civil service from within, the breakdown of congressional oversight, the reshaping of judicial independence, and the industrial collapse of accountability journalism.