Mar 3, 2022
THIS INTERVIEW HAS NOT BEEN BROADCAST TILL NOW.
In May 2020, Claudia Cragg spoke with Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior about her book 'Hiding In Plain Sight'. She was previously the author of 'The View From Flyover Country.'
Her opinions were at the time often considered 'hyperbole' or 'fanciful nonsense.'
If only they had been?
Just recently, as a regular MSNBC guest Sarah Kendzior claimed Donald Trump was “installed” as former president to weaken America’s international posture for the benefit of Vladimir Putin and Russia.
New York Times bestselling author Sarah
Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of
Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties
made an American demagogue possible.
The story of Donald Trump’s rise to power is the story of a buried
American history – buried because people in power liked it that
way. It was visible without being seen, influential without being
named, ubiquitous without being overt.
Sarah Kendzior’s Hiding in Plain Sight pulls
back the veil on a history spanning decades, a history of an
American autocrat in the making. In doing so, she reveals the
inherent fragility of American democracy – how our continual loss
of freedom, the rise of consolidated corruption, and the secrets
behind a burgeoning autocratic United States have been hiding in
plain sight for decades.
In Kendzior’s signature and celebrated style, she expertly outlines
Trump’s meteoric rise from the 1980s until today, interlinking key
moments of his life with the degradation of the American political
system and the continual erosion of our civil liberties by foreign
powers. Kendzior also offers a never-before-seen look at her
lifelong tendency to be in the wrong place at the wrong time –
living in New York through 9/11 and in St. Louis during the
Ferguson uprising, and researching media and authoritarianism when
Trump emerged using the same tactics as the post-Soviet
dictatorships she had long studied.
It is a terrible feeling to sense a threat coming, but it is worse
when we let apathy, doubt, and fear prevent us from preparing
ourselves. Hiding in Plain Sight confronts the
injustice we have too long ignored because the truth is the only
way forward.