Will Sommer has established himself as the expert on America’s right-wing fringe. Now he’s exploring the damage that Donald Trump and the QAnon theorists who adore him have wreaked on the country. With kidnappings, murders, and Satanic rituals, this is a story so bizarre, only Will Sommer could report it.” — Molly Jong-Fast, contributing writer, the Atlantic
“To understand this unique—and uniquely scary—moment in American politics, you need to understand QAnon. And to understand QAnon, you need to read this book.” — Chris Cillizza, host of CNN's The Point
“Will Sommer all but invented serious cultural reporting on the far right, inhabiting the worst corners of the internet so that the rest of us could understand them, and his new book on QAnon serves as a vital road map to one of the strangest and most disturbing movements of modern politics. Writing with insight, empathy, and historical expertise, Will masterfully documents how a random anonymous internet post on Reddit in 2017 rose up and swallowed the Republican Party.” — Garrett Graff, author of Watergate: A New History
“Punchy and well-reported….Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story. He traces the rise of lawless message boards like 8chan, he profiles the key players, he chronicles QAnon’s influence on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, he sneaks into QAnon rallies, he analyzes Republican reactions to the blight in their fields, and he breathes deep of the madness, while staying blissfully sane himself.” — New York Times
"Sommer emerges to offer a close examination of the rise and continued presence of QAnon on the US political landscape. Detailed and impeccably researched, Trust the Plan is essentially a crash course on a volatile and vocal segment of the US population." — The Guardian
"This is an absolutely fascinating and deeply troubling book. Rage-inducing and heartbreaking, it’s a rigorously researched, energetically written examination of a phenomenon laughed off for too long as fringe silliness." — Booklist (starred review)
“Investigative journalist Will Sommer has been following QAnon since it first emerged in 2017. Trust the Plan is an extended interrogation of the theory’s genesis and roots.” — Jacobin
“[Sommer has] turned this bizarre new world of the far right into his full-time beat. Now he’s one of its most knowledgeable chroniclers—as evidenced by Sommer’s new book….[Trust the Plan] surveys the unintentional comedy and wrenching tragedy that has accompanied QAnon’s infiltration into so many American brains.” — The Washingtonian
10/01/2021
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