Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
by Katherine Stewart
View on GoodreadsStewart's 2025 follow-up to The Power Worshippers — updated for the Trump-2.0 environment, Project 2025, and the explicit anti-democratic turn the movement has taken since the original book.
Core ideas
- The movement has shifted from majority-rule arguments to minority-rule legitimation — when the demographic math turned against them, the argument moved from "we are the people" to "we are the chosen, and democracy must be subordinated to that."
- The Heritage Foundation, the Convention of States movement, and the constitutional-revision projects are mapped as the operational layer — what the policy and legal arms of the movement are actually trying to do, not just what they say.
- The book reads as more alarmed than The Power Worshippers — Stewart's framing in 2020 was diagnostic; in 2025 it's emergency-room, which itself is a tell about how the movement has evolved.
Published2025
Pages352
ISBN9781635578546
ReadMar 2025
