Book overview
A sweeping indictment of President Donald Trump's catastrophic second term.
In his first Inaugural address in 2017, President Donald Trump warned darkly of "American carnage." Today, "American carnage" is less a warning than a threat fulfilled. Inflation is untamed, the country is at war, and the foundations of American democracy are at risk.
Americans did not vote for this.
Authored by a broad coalition of prominent experts and former government officials, Betrayed is a fact-based critique of the damage wreaked by the Trump administration in its second term-from the weakening of our defenses, to the sabotage of our economy, the loss of our freedoms, and the corrosive impact of unparalleled corruption.
Betrayed leads to an inescapable conclusion: that the abuses of power of this administration must be stopped, and that Trump and his loyalists must be held accountable.
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The COMMON SENSE COALITION is a bipartisan and non-partisan group of experts, former government officials, former military officers, academics, and scholars. Visit commonsensecoalition.net.
ABOUT THE EDITORS:
IRA SHAPIRO is a lawyer, a long-time senior Senate staffer, and a former U.S. trade official. He is the author of a trilogy of narrative histories about the Senate, starting with The Last Great Senate: Courage and Statesmanship in Times of Crisis (2012), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
ANNE KIM is a journalist and lawyer. She is the author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America's Poor (The New Press, 2024) and Abandoned: America's Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection (The New Press, 2020), winner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice.
