What They Demand Is Victory. What We Get Is War.

Trumpism explained in Spencer Ackerman’s ‘Reign of Terror’

Detail from the book cover of “Reign of Terror”

“The post-9/11 era,” Spencer Ackerman says, is “nothing other than a reign of terror,” and it is “increasingly difficult to see America as anything more than its War on Terror.” That’s from his 2021 book, Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump.