Name: Democracy in Reverse
Author: Pierpaolo Marturano

Democracy in Reverse

The United States After the Second Trump Presidency

"The question is not whether democracy will return to what it was before, but whether it will manage to avoid becoming something qualitatively worse."

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The Book

A structural analysis of the American democratic crisis

Democracy in Reverse is an in-depth analysis of how the American democratic system is undergoing a phase of structural regression. This is not political journalism or partisan polemic, but a rigorous investigation into the deep mechanisms that are transforming one of the world's most influential democracies.

The book explores the historical roots of the crisis, Trump's role as a catalyst, the institutional transformations of the second presidency, and the global consequences of this change. The approach is interdisciplinary: historical, constitutional-legal, political science, and media studies.

"Democracies, unlike authoritarian regimes, rarely collapse through a single traumatic event. More frequently, they transform through accumulation, through successive adaptations, through small exceptions that become customary. It is precisely this gradualness that makes them vulnerable."

Book Structure

Six parts to understand the ongoing transformation

Part I

The Roots of the Democratic Crisis

American exceptionalism, pre-Trump tensions, the role of media and polarization in preparing the ground.

Part II

Trump as a Systemic Accelerator

How the first presidency functioned as a stress test for American democratic institutions.

Part III

The Second Presidency and the Break

Structural differences from the first term: judicial system, organizational learning, preemptive purges.

Part IV

Illiberal Democracy

Separation of powers under attack, the cold cultural civil war, erosion of informal norms.

Part V

Global Consequences

Impact on the international system, domino effect on allied democracies, redefinition of the liberal order.

Part VI

The Future of Democracy

Possible scenarios, indicators to monitor, conditions for a possible democratic recovery.

The Author

Pierpaolo Marturano

Computer scientist and technology entrepreneur, he is CEO of Core Matrix S.r.l., a company specializing in advanced software solutions development. For over twenty years he has designed architectures for distributed systems, cloud platforms, and high-reliability infrastructures.

Independent scholar of economics, history, and complex systems, he dedicates himself to analyzing the transformation dynamics of political and economic institutions, with particular attention to the intersection of technology, finance, and power.

Among his publications: Quantum Computing: Foundations, Principles and Applications, Code Money: Debt, Ledger and Power, The Inevitable Order in Financial Markets.

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Updates

Analysis and commentary on developments in the democratic crisis

January 2026

Book Publication

Democracy in Reverse is now available. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of American democratic transformation up to January 2026.

Coming Soon

International Edition

The English edition will soon be available for international readers, with updated and adapted content.