{"product_id":"demolition-agenda-how-trump-tried-to-dismantle-american-government-and-what-biden-needs-to-do-to-save-it-9781620976395","title":"Demolition Agenda: How Trump Tried to Dismantle American Government  and What Biden Needs to Do to Save It","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first comprehensive account of the Trump administrations efforts to destroy our government institutions  by the man Ralph Nader says writes authoritatively and with revealing detail about important topics that few others cover  Tom McGarity writes authoritatively and with revealing detail about important topics that few others cover. Ralph Nader Koch Industries spent $3.1 million in the first three months of the Trump administration  largely to ensure confirmation of Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA. By July 2018  more than sixteen federal inquiries were pending into Pruitts mismanagement and corruption. But Pruitt was just the first in a long line of industry-friendly  incompetent  and destructive agency heads put in place by the Trump administration in its effort to dismantle the federal governments protective edifice. Remember Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke  who  before he faced eighteen separate federal inquiries and was fired  made a deal with Halliburton to build a brewery on land that Zinke owned in Montana? Or how about Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao  who rescinded requirements that high-hazard trains install special braking systems  weakened standards for storing natural gas  and lengthened the hours that truck drivers could be on the road without a break  even as she failed for two years to divest her interest in a road materials manufacturer? And then there were Rick Perry  Betsy DeVos  Sonny Perdue  Andrew Puzder . . . the list goes on. In an original and compelling argument  Thomas McGarity shows how adding populists to the Republicans traditional base of free market ideologues and establishment Republicans allowed Trump to come dangerously close to achieving his goal of demolishing the programs that Congress put in place over the course of many decades to protect consumers  workers  communities  children  and the environment. Finally  McGarity offers a blueprint for rebuilding the protective edifice and restoring the power of the American government to offer all Americans better lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665799405621,"sku":"ByrdShop_1620976390","price":21.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781620976395.jpg?v=1782407769","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/demolition-agenda-how-trump-tried-to-dismantle-american-government-and-what-biden-needs-to-do-to-save-it-9781620976395","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}