The Inflection Election

Rep. JAMIE RASKIN (D-MD): “This fine book is an essential primer about the stakes in ’24. We owe Mark a debt of gratitude.”

LAURENCE TRIBE: “Written with searing clarity and biting humor.” 

The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism in 2024? aims to warn busy and credulous Americans that this November will be a choice between a Party of Progress and a Party of Dangerous Extremism that may determine the path for American governance for generations. 
 
This is not a “both-sides” analysis by a journalistic spectator, but is instead a blunt “one-sided” guide by an experienced partisan—a public interest lawyer, elected Democrat, and prolific author. Mark Green makes the case for Democracy and Freedom and against Trump’s blatant Caesarism and MAGA’s fringeworthy agenda.
 
While neither side has a prohibitive advantage as of mid-2024, the stakes are no mystery. If the GOP should now win both the White House and Congress—with a reactionary Supreme Court already in its column—a numerical minority of Americans would then enjoy a temporary governing majority that could cancel a century of progress and make the world’s oldest democracy no longer democratic. 
 
There must be a word that binds together such threats but it sure isn't “conservative” in the way Eisenhower, Reagan, or the Bushes would have understood it. For if all the corruption, lies, violence, and racism described throughout The Inflection Election were aggregated into a pointillist painting, the portrait would resemble Orbán far more than Obama.  
 
This is extremism posing as patriotism . . . whether it’s called fascism, dictatorship, autocracy, or authoritarianism. While the country can hope that the courts will hold Trump accountable, Green concludes that crushing it in 2024 is the best way to return to a healthy two-party system where losers respect the choice of voters, like in the good old days of 1789–2020. 

In a likely close 2024 national contest, The Inflection Election is an entertaining and informative manifesto that will become part of this year’s urgent political conversation. It is a one-stop primer that synthesizes fresh phrases, narratives and values to keep Democrats on offense and Trump’s MAGA party on-the-ropes. Green’s conclusion is that the GOP “sounds like a casting call for the delirious jury in the classic film Idiocracy, which was supposed to be a satire on reverse Darwinism, not reality TV.” 
 
November 5, 2024 is either/or time. This book explains why.

Mark Green is the author or editor of twenty-six books, including the #1 New York Times best-seller Who Runs Congress? and was the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review in 1970. After working with Ralph Nader for the next ten years, Green founded The Democracy Project and served as the twice-elected Public Advocate for New York City. He  was the Democratic nominee for mayor in 2001, losing the general election by two points to Michael Bloomberg. He then hosted the nationally syndicated radio show Both Sides Now with Huffington and Maitlin and later became the last president of Air America Radio. 

Rep. Jamie Raskin is in his fourth term representing Maryland’s 8th Congressional District. He is the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and was the lead impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, as well as serving on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol.  Previously, Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland, where he also served as the Senate Majority Whip. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and was the author in 2022 of the #1 New York Times best-selling book Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy.

“This fine book is an essential primer about the stakes in ’24. We owe Mark a debt of gratitude.” — Rep. JAMIE RASKIN (D-MD)

“Written with searing clarity and humor.” — LAURENCE TRIBE

“Mark Green galvanizes the reader with passion and humor.” — HEATHER McGHEE, author of The Sum of Us

“A liberal’s liberal, Green speaks his mind with a joke on his tongue and purpose in his heart.” — DAVID FRUM, senior editor, The Atlantic

Praise for Mark Green

“Who Runs Congress? is a highly readable and often entertaining cataloguing of congressional sin, arrogance and unresponsiveness.”—New Republic
 
“Altogether persuasive…an excellent book.”—John Kenneth Galbraith, NYTimes Book Review, on The Other Government
 
“When I’m your president, Mark’s transition volume, Changing America—grounded in the primary value of Democracy—will be used to help America live up to her highest ideals of democracy and responsibility.”—Bill Clinton, during his 1992 campaign
 
“Mark is one of the best liberal debaters on television today.”—Larry King
 
“Mark Green is one of the leading politicians and advocates in the country. I believe that someday he’ll be president of New York City.” —Chris Rock
 
“Mark has survived a lifetime in politics by holding on to his wit, grit, heart and values. His beautifully written memoir tells what it feels like to battle for your beliefs … from someone who’s done it.”—George Stephanopoulos on Bright Infinite Future