Where
Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the Fbi, and the War on Democracy
Hardcover – 27 Aug. 2024
English
edition by David Rohde (auteur)
Over the
course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his
will Justice Department and FBI officials, from Attorneys General Jeff Sessions
and William Barr to career public servants. He sowed public doubt in both
agencies so successfully that when he tried to overturn the results of the 2020
election, he paid little political cost and, despite an unprecedented array of
criminal indictments, easily won the Republican nomination for the 2024
presidential election.
In Where
Tyranny Begins, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde investigates the
strategies Trump systematically used to turn the country's two most powerful
law-enforcement agencies into his personal political weapons. Rohde also
reveals how, during the Biden years, Justice Department non-partisan 1970s
norms that Attorney General Merrick Garland reinforced inadvertently helped
Trump, and could fail to deliver a trial and legal accountability by Election
Day 2024.
Where
Tyranny Begins exposes how ill-suited both the DOJ and FBI are to serve as
checks on abuses of presidential power. The rise of hyper-partisanship and the
Trump and Biden presidencies have uncovered core flaws in American
constitutional democracy that Trump would exploit in a second term. A round of
historic reforms equivalent to the post-Watergate reforms that stabilized
American democracy in the 1970s are immediately needed. A five-word warning
coined by the English philosopher John Locke in 1689 captures the stakes in
2024: "Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins."
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