The Trump Card.Quantum Power and the Rise of Political Cubism.
A long-form demonstration of a higher-resolution political analysis. The book introduces the mechanics (Quantum Power), the method (Political Cubism), and applies both to a composite actor whose career exposes the limits of classical interpretation.
The mechanics: actors, media, fields, reception, observation, collapse, ΔT, stability.
The method: refracting the same event across legal, media, institutional, affective, symbolic, temporal, and observer planes.
What classical political theory had to assume, and what those assumptions cost.
The composite actor under analysis: a sequence of events read with the prism method.
Operational guides for the analyzers, the glossary, and citation conventions.
This book is not an argument that politics is physics. It is an argument that classical political analysis was already, quietly, a kind of physics — one whose assumptions stopped holding when politics moved through modern media. Political Cubism is the method I needed to read events I was watching mis-collapse in real time. Quantum Power is the mechanics that made the method work.
Francisco-Wahl, Jeremiah and Taylor. (2026). The Trump Card: Quantum Power and the Rise of Political Cubism. Written in New York City. politicalcubism.org