Publisher's Synopsis
The rise of Donald Trump may have shocked Americans, but it should not have surprised them. His anti-democratic movement is the culmination of a decades-long breakdown of U.S. institutions. The same blindness to U.S. decline - particularly the loss of economic stability for the majority of the population and opportunity-hoarding by the few - is reflected in an unwillingness to accept that authoritarianism can indeed thrive in the so-called 'home of the free'. As Americans struggle to reconcile the gulf between a flagrant aspiring autocrat and the democratic precepts they had been told were sacred and immutable, the inherent fragility of American democracy has been revealed. 'Hiding in Plain Sight' exposes this continual loss of freedom, the rise of consolidated corruption and the secrets behind a burgeoning autocratic United States that have been hiding in plain sight for decades.
