Book Announcement for: Trump’s Presidential Years: History as it Happened, 2011-2021
Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, Kindle Edition, Amazon, 2022
It was likely that by the end of 2022 several hundred books had already been written, or were in the process of being written, or were gleams in an author’s-agent’s-publisher’s eye, about the subject of Donald J. Trump in general, his Presidency in particular, and the ongoing development of Republo-fascism as it had been happening before our very eyes since the advent of Trump. The total number of words published in books on the subjects is likely well into the tens of millions. This book alone totals over 300,000 words. The question should then be asked, why another book, and why now? What’s different about this one?
What is different about the six volumes of this book compared with most of the others, is that it presents a contemporaneous picture of Trump, Trumpism, Trump-Republicanism, and the Republo-fascism that they collectively morphed into over the time-period covered. The columns were published regularly throughout each year, as Trump and his “progeny” moved along, developed, and collectively attempted to impose their will upon the nation, in part or in whole. They cover the time-period from the early Trump-Presidency-origins in 2011 (one column in that year) through the first three, post-Insurrection, months of 2021.
Since 2015, I have been regularly publishing on-line the columns that comprise the book. For the time-period covered, they are presented in chronological order. Please note that each column is re-published in the book just as it was written when first published, on one of three different webmagazines: The Greanville Post, Buzzflash, and OpEdNews. None have been further edited for this book.
The columns appear in six chapters, chronologically as they were published in: 2011-16 (Vol. 1), 2017 (Vol. 2), 2018 (Vol. 3), 2019 (Vol. 4), 2020 (Vol. 5), and 2021 (Vol. 6) through the three months following the Trump-Insurrection of Jan. 6. One might note that like Dec. 7, 1941, when the Empire of Japan launched a surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii, as Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously said (on Dec. 8, 1941) Jan. 6, 2021 is a “Day the Shall Live in Infamy.” Of course, the saga of the possible descent of the United States into an authoritarian state continues, as does my writing on that history-in-progress.
Having over time written much about the Nazi takeover of the government of the Weimar Republic of Germany in early 1933 (to which I have referred on more than one occasion in the columns in this book), and how it was accomplished in part by using violence and the threat of violence, comparisons immediately came to mind. Trump and his people were horrified only because his attempted coup did not succeed. But of course, he, and his fellow Republo-fascists are still very hard at work on their enterprise to impose their will upon our nation at some time in the future. While some of the original set have abandoned the project for one reason another, others have joined right in, to let us know that, for example, their “Steal the Vote” campaign will be much better organized next time ‘round than it was on a quick-to-the-starting-line basis last time. This is a theme to which I continually return in the book.
In summary, primarily to assist in the campaign to put an end to Trumpism and Republo-fascism, first this book sets forth a history-as-it-happened timeline/description of the relevant Trump-related events of the time-period it covers. Second, it is designed as a reference tool for use in the continuing struggle against the threatened Fascist revolution that Trump and major elements of the Republo-fascist Party are telling us most every day that they are working harder-than-ever to achieve.