Democracy Under Siege: Essays from the Trump Years (2017-2024)

After the election of Donald Trump in 2016, a president elected without winning the popular vote, our country's figurehead became a man with an affinity for racism, misogyny, homophobia, white supremacy, etc., with no regards to the cruelty that is inherent in each.

America is better than that.

And every other day came a new abomination, only to be replaced with another outrage at a rate that even the press couldn't keep up. The parallel to Hitler's rise became so stark that many felt the need to sound a clarion call.

"I think this tradition of writing, of drawing out a common humanity, is indispensable to our future, if only because what must be cultivated and cared for, must first be seen."

-Ta-Nehisi Coates

The essays within these pages are a humble attempt of drawing out a common humanity and bearing witness to our democracy's battle against the forces of fascism.