The Regime Change

What if the greatest threat to American democracy wasn't a foreign adversary — but a set of legal doctrines, executive precedents, and broken norms assembled over a century and handed to someone with no interest in their limits?
When Donald Trump took the oath of office in January 2017, he didn't just inherit a presidency. He inherited a machine — a post-9/11 surveillance apparatus, an Office of Legal Counsel that had never learned to say no, a civil service exposed by decades of incremental politicization, and emergency powers broad enough to fund a border wall without Congress ever voting yes.
The Regime Change is the book that names this machine, maps every lever inside it, and shows — in precise, forensic detail — exactly how far those levers were pulled. From the gutting of DOJ independence to the remaking of the federal judiciary for a generation, from the disinformation strategy that shattered America's shared factual reality to the six-page legal memo that nearly invalidated a presidential election without a single law being visibly broken — this is not a partisan account. It is a constitutional autopsy.
Written with the precision of investigative journalism and the weight of constitutional scholarship, The Regime Change is the first book to trace the full arc: not Trump as aberration, but Trump as culmination. Every future president — Democrat or Republican — now inherits Schedule F, the immunity doctrine, the judicial appointments, and the knowledge that a Department of Justice can be bent without breaking.
Readers who devoured Fear, I Alone Can Fix It, and The Room Where It Happened will find this the most structurally rigorous account yet written of what actually changed, why it cannot simply be reversed, and what a genuine path to constitutional renewal requires. If you've been searching for a book about Trump's presidency that goes beyond the headlines and into the machinery — this is the one you've been waiting for.
The question is no longer whether Donald Trump remade the American presidency. He did. The question — the urgent one — is whether it can be unmade, and whether the will to try still exists.
Pick up The Regime Change today. The window is open. It will not remain open indefinitely.