Trump didn’t break U.S. democracy. He exploited its fractures.

A sharp analysis of Trump’s return to power, this book presents him not as the cause of the crisis but as its symptom. Alberto Toscano situates Trumpism within the structural contradictions of contemporary capitalism and the decline of U.S. global hegemony. Drawing on Marx, Gramsci, and Weber, he shows Trump as a Caesarist leader who governs through coercion and policing rather than consent. This is a rule without hegemony: domination that survives by exploiting fractures, fear, and permanent crisis, rather than seeking legitimacy or universal leadership.