Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era calls on the field of writing studies to take up a necessary agenda of social and economic change in its classrooms, its scholarship, and its communities to challenge the rise of neoliberalism and right-wing nationalism.

Chapter One: Introduction: "What Does Democracy Look Like?" Part I: Mapping the Political Turn Chapter Two: Composition's Left and the Struggle for Revolutionary Consciousness Chapter Three: Organize as If It Were Possible to Create a Movement That Will Change the World": An Interview with Angela Davis Chapter Four: Marxist Ethics for Uncertain Times Chapter Five: A Pedagogy for the Political Turn Part II: Variations on the Political Turn Chapter Six: "I'd Like to Overthrow Capitalism, But Meanwhile, I would Like the Nazis to be Completely Demoralized": An Interview with Dana L. Cloud Chapter Seven: Audience Addressed? Audience Invoked? Audience Organized! Chapter Eight: Legibility, Failure, and Political Turning Chapter Nine: Nudging Ourselves Toward a Political Turn Chapter Ten: Sustainable Audiences/Renewable Products: Penn State's Student Farm, Business Writing, and Community Outreach Chapter Eleven: The Political Turn and the Two-Year College: Equity-Centred Partnerships and the Opportunities of Democratic Reform Part III: Taking the Political Turn Chapter Twelve: How Does it Feel to be a Problem at the 9/11 Museum? Chapter Thirteen: Dismantling the Wall: Analysing the Rhetorics of Shock and Writing Political Transformation Chapter Fourteen: Pass the Baton: Lessons from Historic Examples of the Political Turn, 1967-68 Chapter Fifteen: The Visa Labyrinths: Writing Our Way Through the U.S.-Columbian Border Chapter Sixteen: Conclusion: Further Notes on the Political Turn