The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism in 2024?

The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism in 2024?
by: Mark Green (Author),Jamie Raskin(Foreword)
Publisher:Skyhorse Publishing
Publication Date: 30 April 2024
Language:English
Print Length:240 pages
ISBN-10:1510780831
ISBN-13:9781510780835
Book Description
Rep. JAMIE RASKIN (D-MD): “This fine book is an essential primer about the stakes in ’24. We owe Mark a debt of gratitude.”LAURENCE TRIBE: “Written with searing clarity and biting humor.” The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism in 2024? aims to warn busy and credulous Americans that this November will be a choice between a Party of Progress and a Party of Dangerous Extremism that may determine the path for American governance for generations. This is not a “both-sides” analysis by a journalistic spectator, but is instead a blunt “one-sided” guide by an experienced partisan–a public interest lawyer, elected Democrat, and prolific author. Mark Green makes the case for Democracy and Freedom and against Trump’s blatant Caesarism and MAGA’s fringeworthy agenda. While neither side has a prohibitive advantage as of mid-2024, the stakes are no mystery. If the GOP should now win both the White House and Congress–with a reactionary Supreme Court already in its column–a numerical minority of Americans would then enjoy a temporary governing majority that could cancel a century of progress and make the world’s oldest democracy no longer democratic. There must be a word that binds together such threats but it sure isn’t “conservative” in the way Eisenhower, Reagan, or the Bushes would have understood it. For if all the corruption, lies, violence, and racism described throughout The Inflection Election were aggregated into a pointillist painting, the portrait would resemble Orbán far more than Obama. This is extremism posing as patriotism . . . whether it’s called fascism, dictatorship, autocracy, or authoritarianism. While the country can hope that the courts will hold Trump accountable, Green concludes that crushing it in 2024 is the best way to return to a healthy two-party system where losers respect the choice of voters, like in the good old days of 1789-2020. In a likely close 2024 national contest, The Inflection Election is an entertaining and informative manifesto that will become part of this year’s urgent political conversation. It is a one-stop primer that synthesizes fresh phrases, narratives and values to keep Democrats on offense and Trump’s MAGA party on-the-ropes. Green’s conclusion is that the GOP “sounds like a casting call for the delirious jury in the classic film Idiocracy, which was supposed to be a satire on reverse Darwinism, not reality TV.” November 3, 2024 is either/or time. This book explains why.
About the Author
Review “This fine book is an essential primer about the stakes in ’24. We owe Mark a debt of gratitude.” — Rep. JAMIE RASKIN (D-MD) “Written with searing clarity and humor.” — LAURENCE TRIBE “Mark Green galvanizes the reader with passion and humor.” — HEATHER McGHEE, author of The Sum of Us “A liberal’s liberal, Green speaks his mind with a joke on his tongue and purpose in his heart.” — DAVID FRUM, senior editor, The AtlanticPraise for Mark Green”Who Runs Congress? is a highly readable and often entertaining cataloguing of congressional sin, arrogance and unresponsiveness.”–New Republic “Altogether persuasive…an excellent book.”–John Kenneth Galbraith, NYTimes Book Review, on The Other Government “When I’m your president, Mark’s transition volume, Changing America–grounded in the primary value of Democracy–will be used to help America live up to her highest ideals of democracy and responsibility.”–Bill Clinton, during his 1992 campaign “Mark is one of the best liberal debaters on television today.”–Larry King “Mark Green is one of the leading politicians and advocates in the country. I believe that someday he’ll be president of New York City.” –Chris Rock “Mark has survived a lifetime in politics by holding on to his wit, grit, heart and values. His beautifully written memoir tells what it feels like to battle for your beliefs … from someone who’s done it.”–George Stephanopoulos on Bright Infinite Future About the Author Mark Green (R-Tennessee) is currently serving as chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security. Raised in Mississippi, he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army for several years before going to medical school, and returned to it after completing a residency in emergency medicine. After leaving the army for good, Green founded a healthcare company and is currently serving his third term in Congress. He and his wife, Camilla, reside in Clarksville, Tennessee, and have two grown children.