'He doesn’t care if Americans live or die. And that might sound harsh and blunt, but that’s the truth of the matter.' Author SarahKendzior discusses her new book, 'Hiding In Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America.'
There’s been a booming cottage industry of #resistancetwitter, and many handfuls of books published about the increasing threat posed by the Trump administration—but you’re one of the few people I’ve seen who, long before most everybody else, warned us very specifically of the political landscape that we now find ourselves in.
No. I don’t care what people who aren’t going to look at the facts, or who’ve made up their mind in advance, will say. I write for whoever is willing to listen. Before I was writing about the United States, I was writing about dictatorships in former Soviet Central Asia, and I began to notice a lot of parallels between what happened to the U.S. after the 2008 economic collapse and the kleptocracies in the former Soviet Union.
Do you see something about his administration’s response to this global pandemic that’s beyond mere incompetence or cynicism? I don’t think he even cares whether his base lives or dies—they’re just pawns to him, background players in the reality show of the Donald Trump presidency. What Trump is very good at, though, is tapping into a broader feeling of abandonment, which almost everybody who lives in the part of the country where I do shares. He’s able to tap into that anger and that worry for the future—and some people still fall for it.
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