American Restoration: Rebuilding the Foundations of Democracy

American Restoration: Rebuilding the Foundations of Democracy

American Restoration is not a retrospective. It is a plan.

In the wake of insurrection, institutional sabotage, and a second Trump presidency, American democracy has reached its most dangerous phase-not collapse, but normalization. The courts no longer restrain. Congress no longer checks. The law is bent not by accident, but by design. This book does not ask whether the system is broken. It begins with the answer: yes. And then asks what we will do next.

This second volume in the American Renewal series offers twenty chapters of structural reform-urgent, specific, and lawful. Each begins with the collapse of a core institution and ends with a remedy: restoring voting rights, ending judicial impunity, rebuilding civic education, rebalancing presidential power, and reclaiming truth in the public square. These are not idealistic dreams. They are minimal conditions for democracy to function. They are written for a republic that must not only survive-but mature.

Across courts, Congress, elections, media, and memory, American Restoration confronts the systems that failed, names the forces that broke them, and draws a blueprint for democratic repair. It offers neither a perfect plan nor a partisan wish list, but a strategic foundation-rooted in law, sharpened by history, and made urgent by the hour. Every chapter includes a Reader's Guide to help turn insight into action.

This is not the end of the fight. It is the beginning of the construction. The task is generational. The work is shared. No one is coming to call us together in Philadelphia. No parchment will save us. We must do it ourselves-scattered, diverse, determined, and together.

The world is watching. So are our children.