Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior is the story of Donald Trump’s rise to power. This story has been “visible without being seen”. Corruption, crime, and racism are all connected and “shape everyday American life”. Powerful individuals have for a long time acted “against the public good” free from scrutiny.
Sarah Kendzior points out that “you walk over it every day, unaware it exists until the earth shakes below your feet”. People with no respect for human life have horded resources “on a heretofore unimaginable scale” during the “last four decades”.
Kendzior warns us that once “an autocrat gets into office, it is very hard to get them out”. They will disregard term limits, rewrite the laws, take our money, steal our freedom, “before the majority realizes the extent of the damage”. That is why it is important to act early!
Sarah Kendzior has learned that it is worse when the “truth falls not on deaf ears but on receptive ones”, because it is “one thing to listen”, “another to care—and yet another to act in time”. Kendzior believes that “an informed public is a powerful public” and hopes we take “that message to heart” while reading her book. I highly recommend the book.
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