Gabriel Gatehouse: The Coming Storm - Part of Summer Derby Book Festival

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Sponsored by Geldards

Is this how democracy dies?  Based on his hit podcast, Gabriel Gatehouse explores the roots of Q Anon and the rise of the extreme right in the US.  He 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 was only the beginning of the journey towards another chaotic Trump presidency

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. At a perilous moment in the history of American democracy, Gabriel tells us some dark truths about our present – and provides clues about our future.

Gabriel will be in conversation with BBC Correspondent Navtej Johal.