Coming up this next week: Thom is "off" completing his latest book and Jefferson Smith is filling in
The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink will be released on September 23, 2025. You can pre-order now.
The new book, The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink, 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 but was handed the keys by those who should have been its guardians.
In this book Thom 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, The Last American President exposes the assembly line that manufactured an authoritarian.
But this is about more than Trump's past; it’s about America's future. As climate catastrophe accelerates and fascism spreads globally, this book reveals the nightmare scenario: a second Trump term that doesn't just end American democracy but also triggers irreversible planetary damage. Through meticulous research and unflinching analysis, it shows how political cowardice and corporate greed created the perfect storm that could extinguish humanity’s last chance at survival.
This isn;t just political commentary; it's a last-minute alarm sounding before the point of no return. You can pre-order it with this link: The Last American President
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Here's hoping you and Louise are having a relaxing vacation, and know that Jefferson Smith is a Great Substitute. Here's to you and all of your readers, have a good, Safe holiday weekend, and will reStack ASAP 💯 👍
Oh, oh does the title mean the very last president before the US spirals off into the tyranny of emperors like what happened to the Roman Empire?