Overview
Discover how Trump became America's first domestic economic hit man—targeting citizens with corporate warfare tactics—and learn the urgent steps to save democracy.
When John Perkins wrote Confessions of an Economic Hit Man in 2004, the covert system he exposed operated in distant countries through shadows and backdoor deals. Today, those same tactics—fear, debt, manufactured scarcity, and division—have turned inward against American citizens. And one person embodies this domestic transformation more than any other: Donald Trump.
This isn't partisan politics. Every US president since JFK has deployed economic hit men to execute policy. But Trump is the first to master the playbook himself, applying these techniques to rural America, Rust Belt cities, and the forgotten middle class. Through twenty detailed chapters, Perkins traces how Trump branded the mirage of success, replaced legitimacy with leverage, and politicized truth itself.
Drawing on his decades of work exposing corporatocracy, Perkins reveals the four pillars sustaining this system and offers a path forward for transforming a system turned against itself. For readers alarmed by corporate power, economic inequality, and threats to democracy, this book is both an urgent warning and a roadmap for resistance.
When John Perkins wrote Confessions of an Economic Hit Man in 2004, the covert system he exposed operated in distant countries through shadows and backdoor deals. Today, those same tactics—fear, debt, manufactured scarcity, and division—have turned inward against American citizens. And one person embodies this domestic transformation more than any other: Donald Trump.
This isn't partisan politics. Every US president since JFK has deployed economic hit men to execute policy. But Trump is the first to master the playbook himself, applying these techniques to rural America, Rust Belt cities, and the forgotten middle class. Through twenty detailed chapters, Perkins traces how Trump branded the mirage of success, replaced legitimacy with leverage, and politicized truth itself.
Drawing on his decades of work exposing corporatocracy, Perkins reveals the four pillars sustaining this system and offers a path forward for transforming a system turned against itself. For readers alarmed by corporate power, economic inequality, and threats to democracy, this book is both an urgent warning and a roadmap for resistance.
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