Trust the Plan

“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
“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
"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)