Is this how democracy dies? Based on his smash hit podcast The Coming Storm is Gabriel
Gatehouse's brilliant exploration of the roots of Q Anon and the rise of the extreme right in
the US. It's a story that reaches back decades showing how a dark fantasy embedded itself in
the American consciousness threatening to derail its democracy - and it continues to unfold
today. Gatehouse's riveting book takes you down a rabbit hole - one that both the US as a
nation and he as a journalist fell through - to unpack an epochal shift in political culture
that starts in the earliest years of the Clinton administration and reaches a crescendo on 6
January 2021 with the storming of the US Capitol. But that event wasn't the wild finale of a
chaotic Trump presidency many hoped for - it was only the beginning. A compelling mix of
reportage and personal experience The Coming Storm gets under the skin of these conspiracy
theories to show us a radical new kind of politics emerging a movement that has coalesced
around a loose alliance of white supremacists men's rights activists tech bros and radically
disenchanted leftists. As we approach the 2024 US presidential election and perhaps the most
perilous moment in the history of American democracy Gatehouse's book tells us some dark
truths about our present and provides clues about our future. It marks the debut of a major
new voice in political journalism.
