Betrayed: America Didn't Vote for This

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.***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. Read more