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Regime Change: How Powerful Is Trump’s Imperial Presidency?
Regime Change begins with a question about what changes when a president returns to office already knowing how the machinery of government works. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan argue that Donald Trump’s second presidency differs fundamentally from his first: fewer internal restraints, more carefully selected loyalists, and a president substantially more willing to test the reach of executive power.Drawing on extensive reporting from inside the administration, Haberman and Swan describe a White House in which many of the officials who once resisted Trump are gone and the people surrounding…
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