What must we learn from Trump's attack on democracy?
Historian and non-fiction prize winner Christina Morina spent a year in New York with her family in 2024/25 as a visiting professor at the world-renowned New School For Social Research. At close quarters, she experienced Donald Trump's disastrous comeback and its devastating consequences for American democracy, which are also reflected in people's everyday lives. She had come to America to research and teach the history of democracy. And suddenly she became a witness to the large-scale attempt to destroy it.
In her book Das amerikanische Beben: Erfahrungen und Konsequenzen für die deutsche Demokratie, she describes in a very personal way how Trump's attack has shaken democracy to its core. At the same time, she places current events in a broader context: What distinguishes the German experience of democracy from that of Americans?