What if the greatest threat to American democracy wasn’t tanks in the streets—but line items in a budget?

American Austerity: Using Budget Cuts to Strip Rights and Enforce Control is a razor-sharp exposé of how modern austerity is not a fiscal strategy but a political weapon. From dismantling civil rights enforcement and starving public schools, to replacing public institutions with partisan loyalists, this book uncovers the systematic effort to hollow out democracy under the guise of "limited government."

Spanning from Reaganomics to Trump’s Project 2025, this 30-chapter investigation reveals how austerity is engineered to fail the public while protecting elites. It’s not about saving money—it’s about shifting power. Education, healthcare, housing, science, and voting rights are all arenas of this quiet war. Federal agencies aren’t reformed—they’re gutted to ensure they can’t push back. Public infrastructure isn’t neglected—it’s sabotaged to justify privatization. Meanwhile, police and military budgets grow unchecked, tasked with enforcing the very scarcity that defunds everything else.

This is not economic mismanagement. It’s political control by design.

With biting clarity and relentless detail, American Austerity exposes how budget cuts are used to fracture communities, erase rights, and centralize power in the hands of an unaccountable few. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how democracy is being dismantled—not with bullets, but with spreadsheets.

If you believe budgets are moral documents and public goods are worth fighting for, this book will arm you with the evidence, language, and analysis to see the austerity regime for what it is—and what must be done to defeat it.