Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
Sometimes it is hard to get my head around just what is happening at the political level in America. Did we really elect a reality show star as president in 2016… and then elect him again in 2024? We did. And it didn’t just happen. It was orchestrated and implemented on a global scale my a host of players at multiple levels.
Hiding in Plain Sight explores the decades-long history of an American autocrat in the making. Sarah Kendzior knows of which she speaks. She earned her Ph.D. studying authoritarianism in former states of the Soviet Union. When she recognized the same patterns in the US, she began to speak up.
This book is part III in a foundational trilogy of required reading for understanding how America has gotten to where it is the 2020s.
- Start with Democracy in Chains to understand the philosophical and ideological underpinnings that drove the movement.
- Move on to Dark Money to understand how a small group of billionaires created and executed a plan.
- And then read Hiding in Plain to see the breadth of the operations and the depth of the corruption.
In Their Words…
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is a history of the past forty years of American decline and how Trump and his cohort both enabled and benefited from elite criminal impunity. It’s also the story of what it’s like to live day to day in an America dominated by a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government — and what that entrenched corruption means for future generations. If you want to understand where we’re going, you need to know the truth about how we got here.