Money, Lies, and God : Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy - Katherine Stewart
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Money, Lies, and God

Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy

By: Katherine Stewart

Hardcover | 22 May 2025

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"An eerily prescient guide to the phantasmagoria of our political moment."â"The New York Times Book Review

âAmerican democracy isn't simply dying. It is, as Stewart observes, being murdered.ââ"The New Republic

"Meticulously researched, elegantly written, and hard-hitting."â"Kristin Kobes Du Mez

From the acclaimed author of The Power Worshippers, "an indispensable citizen's guide to the anti-democratic MAGA Right in America" (Congressman Jamie Raskin).

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 âthe gynocracy,â pronatalists preoccupied with the dearth of white babies, Covid truthers, militia members masquerading as âconcerned momsâ and battalions of spirit warriors who appear to be inventing a new style of religion even as they set about attacking democracy at its foundations.

Along the way, she provides a compelling analysis of the authoritarian reaction in the United States. She demonstrates that the movement relies on several distinct constituencies, with very different and often conflicting agendas. Stewartâs reporting and comprehensive political analysis helps reframe the conversation about the moral collapse of conservatism in America and points the way forward toward a democratic future.

"Katherine Stewart has written what may be the most important political book of the day, exposing the networks of dark money funded, ultra right-wing subversives who have already done enormous damage to our Constitution and the rule of law and are now perilously close to overthrowing the American government as we know it"â"Sean Wilentz

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