You need to read this book:  The Last American President:  A Broken Man, A Corrupt Party, and the World on the Brink, by Thom Hartmann.

Hartmann pulls no punches in this recent book that summarizes the convergence of (1) a man with no morals, a man whose entire life has been one failure after another, but who plays the part of a genius, (2) obscenely wealthy men who want to control government, and (3) a political party that threw away principles to gain power.

The Last American President rips open America’s wounded democracy to expose a terrifying truth: Donald Trump isn’t an anomaly—he’s the inevitable product of a system engineered to fail. This searing investigation reveals how a man forged by childhood trauma, pathological narcissism, and calculated cruelty didn’t hijack democracy—he was handed the keys by those who should have been its guardians.

Hartmann uncovers the unholy alliance between Trump’s damaged psyche and America’s rotted institutions. From Fred Trump’s brutal parenting to Roy Cohn’s lessons in shamelessness, from a Republican Party that traded principles for power to billionaire donors who treated democracy as a profit center, this book exposes the assembly line that manufactured an authoritarian.