The New Project 2025-Trump Regime Means My Books Are More Relevant Than Ever

You can’t fight an enemy you don’t understand

In 2024, I wrote two short but information-packed books about politics. They were pertinent to the US election (along with all the other elections in 2024), but they are even more pertinent now after the US election results. That’s particularly true because the election, and the results thereof, are not about Trump. They never were and never will be.

This election, like all of politics, was about power. Trump isn’t the power, he’s the facade of it. Trump is nothing more than a symptom. In truth, the people behind Project 2025, the real power in this new regime, are also symptoms of much older, and larger, forces.

What happened in 2024 and what has now been unleashed in 2025 is the fruition of a plan that began in the early 1970s. I’m not talking a conspiracy theory, I’m talking about power exercising power. This plan, this Project 2025, actually has its roots in the American traditions of exceptionalism and nationalism. I explain the history and what’s happening now in my books. Educate yourself.

A philosophy professor explores the motivations and goals of the right wing

(Reprinted on Medium with permission of the publisher.)

Many Americans are concerned about the angry rhetoric in politics, in particular the venom coming from Donald Trump and the right wing. Many Americans want a better answer to MAGA and the right wing than fearmongering and name-calling. Two new books by philosophy professor Dr. Douglas Giles combine to explain how Americans can understand and respond to the right wing.

Avoiding petty partisan politics, Giles demythologizes political action and conflict in his books, Left Wing, Right Wing, People, and Power: The Core Dynamics of Political Action and Why Trump? Why Some People Support Him — How the Rest of Us Can Respond. By providing important social and historical context, the two books provide a well-reasoned, rounded view of the Trump campaign and those who support it.

Left Wing, Right Wing, People, and Power traces the historical development of the left wing and the right…