# The Reckoning

- Author: [Mary L. Trump](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-l-trump.md)
- Quotes: 2
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-l-trump/the-reckoning

## Quotes

> In administration after administration and across centuries and decades, crimes- against decency, against democracy, and against humanity- have been committed by presidents, legislators at all levels of government, the judiciary, and ordinary Americans without punishment, reprisal, or justice for the victims. Then Donald came along and left them all in the dust.

p. 53

> Donald was incompetent, but others in Donald's administration were anything but. What they built was a lean and ruthless machine for advancing fascism. With the help of some luck, complicit institutions, an unprepared media, and a party of willing converts, that machine largely succeeded.

p. 139