Blowback A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump
by Miles Taylor
View on GoodreadsMiles Taylor's named follow-up to A Warning — written to anticipate and describe what a second Trump term would look like, drawing on internal plans, personnel patterns, and what the first term taught.
Core ideas
- Schedule F and personnel: the plan to replace career civil servants with political loyalists is treated as the most consequential second-term move, because it would remove the internal-restraint layer that contained the first term.
- The first-term constraints — institutional norms, residual GOP elected resistance, inexperienced staff — won't be present in a second term; the project has matured.
- The book pairs warning with a counter-program: specific structural reforms (civil service protections, IG independence, prosecutorial guardrails) that would have to land before, not after, the next stress test.
Published2023
Pages343
ISBN9781668016008
ReadSep 2023
