In 2015, a New York businessman rode an escalator into the lobby of his own building — and set off a political earthquake that the establishment never saw coming. What followed was one of the most turbulent decades in American political history: a first term defined by economic gains and broken conventions, a bitterly contested election, an unprecedented wave of impeachments and indictments, an assassination attempt survived in front of the nation's cameras, and a comeback that ended with a return to the same office the establishment had spent four years trying to keep out of reach.
The Counterrevolution traces that decade from the inside of the movement it built — not as the story of one man, but of the millions of ordinary Americans who found in him a voice for grievances Washington had ignored for a generation. Chapter by chapter, it follows the policy record, the coalition's grassroots roots, the legal and institutional gauntlet thrown up against it, and the resilience that carried it through every prediction of its demise.
This is a movement's own account of how it survived — and how it rose again.