Norman Eisen is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the editor and co-author of "Overcoming Trumpery: How to Restore Ethics, the Rule of Law, and Democracy." Colby Galliher is a research analyst at Brookings and a co-author of the book. The views expressed in this commentary are their own. View more opinion on CNN.
(CNN)In our new book, "Overcoming Trumpery," we explain that former President Donald Trump's seemingly chaotic style actually constituted a philosophy of corrupt governance -- and that it is spreading.
We see that in primaries across the nation where candidates such as Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, Herschel Walker in Georgia and dozens of others are running on a platform of Trumpery. It poses a clear and present danger to the American republic.
The book analyzes the Trump years, looking in detail at his and his appointees' actions, and extracting seven defining characteristics -- what we term the "seven deadly sins of Trumpery."
Perhaps the most lethal of these is the one that dominated the end of Trump's presidency: the outright "big lie" assault on democracy. Walker, Oz and dozens of other federal, state and local officials have enthusiastically embraced it; in many ways it appears to be the gateway to Trump's endorsement.
Oz, for example, declared at an April debate that "we cannot move on" from the purported fraud in the 2020 election -- despite a lack of evidence of wrongdoing and, indeed, overwhelming proof there was no widespread fraud.
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