Mark Danner

The New York Review

Donald Trump addresses a crowd of passionate supporters waving election signs.

Getting Out the Fear Vote

November 7, 2024

As Trump improvises at his rallies, his grim imaginings of a mongrelized, crime-ridden country are transformed into unfalsifiable myths.

Podcast cover with the faces of Mark Danner, Fintan O'Toole, and Pamela Karlan

What If He Wins? A Conversation About Trump and the Law

October 24, 2024

New York Review contributors Fintan O’Toole, Pamela Karlan, and Mark Danner for a conversation about the legal issues at stake during the upcoming presidential election.

Supporters of Donald Trump near Fulton County Jail on the day he was booked on state charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Sitting outside with signs reading "Georgia knows Trump won" and "Trump caught them all!".

If Trump has a genius, it is his ability to shape, often out of his own self-made follies and recklessness and crimes, a narrative that relentlessly reaffirms his grim story of an us-versus-them America.

Trump: The Slow-Motion Coup (Part I)

September 14, 2022

Today is not the end. It’s just the beginning. —Donald

Reality Rebellion

June 3, 2021

By doubling down on Trump’s Big Lie that the election was stolen, Republicans are making their base angrier, more radical, and more likely to turn to violence.

Crowd of people, many with MAGA hats, carrying American flags and Trump signs

‘Be Ready to Fight’

January 14, 2021

The New York Review of Books

Trumpism is driven by cruelty and domination even as its rhetoric claims grievance and victimization. The attack on the Capitol showed that Donald Trump’s army of millions will not just melt away when he leaves office.