Thomas O. McGarity is the William Powers Jr. and Kim L. Heilbrun Chair in Tort Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and the past president of the Center for Progressive Reform. He is the author of Pollution, Politics, and Power; Freedom to Harm; The Preemption War; and Demolition Agenda: How Trump Tried to Dismantle American Government, and What Biden Needs to Do to Save It (The New Press), among other books. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Read an excerpt adapted from Thomas McGarity's Demolition Agenda in The Nation about the return of two of the Trump era's biggest grifters to the public arena.