"If a mafia state has really taken hold, wouldn't someone from our institutions do something about it? And the answer is no, they didn't, but it's the lack of that expected response that I think has led people to believe things are safer than they are, better than they are, even in the face of overwhelming evidence."
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Sarah Kendzior
Sarah J. Kendzior (born September 1, 1978) is an American author, anthropologist, researcher, and scholar. Kendzior is the author of The View from Flyover Country – a collection of essays first published as articles by Al Jazeera – and is a former co-host of the Gaslit Nation podcast. Her second book, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, published in In 2020, was a New York Times bestseller. Her third book, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps
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