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“An eerily prescient guide to the phantasmagoria of our political moment.” -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
"Meticulously researched, elegantly written, and hard-hitting."–Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspiracy-mongers, backroom strategy gatherings, and services at extremist churches, and profiles the people who want to tear it all down. She introduces us to reactionary Catholic activists, atheist billionaires, pseudo-Platonist intellectuals, self-appointed apostles of Jesus, disciples of Ayn Rand, women-hating opponents of “the gynocracy,”