Bestselling author Elizabeth Graham has released a new book, Survival - Democracy's Struggle To Survive, co-authored with eight leading experts on Donald Trump, including Craig Unger, David Andelman, Charles Sykes, Steven Beschloss, Dr. Bandy Lee, George A. Polisner, and Mersault. The book is available at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elizabeth-Graham/author/B0CMY189NT.
According to the announcement, Survival is a comprehensive work on the Trump/Russia connection and the importance of being informed about the American electoral process. The book argues that while Americans and the media remain fixated on daily distractions, a crucial danger unfolds: Russia's covert campaign to weaken the United States from within.
The narrative traces back to 1992, when the Soviet Union collapsed and Putin and his KGB colleagues emerged from the wreckage. Recognizing Russia's military decline, they pursued a covert campaign to weaken the U.S. from within. By the turn of the millennium, the CIA, believing the Cold War over, shut down more than thirty overseas intelligence operations and reduced its Russian specialists by over 25%, exposing critical U.S. capabilities. Presidents Bush and Clinton, along with much of the public, no longer viewed Russia as an enemy. Yet elite KGB/FSB operatives infiltrated American society, including an entanglement with a narcissistic American man who loved money and women more than integrity. The trap was set.
Putin's efforts to undermine democracy quietly influenced every aspect of American government, politics, and daily life. Many overlooked this pernicious interference, convinced that Trump is not aligned with Putin—a critical delusion held despite conclusive evidence.
Craig Unger, an award-winning New York Times bestselling author of six books and a political analyst, has provided solid evidence that Trump is "owned" by Putin/Russia. Dr. Bandy Lee, a forensic and social psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author, is editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, which predicted the severity and timing of the nation's decline if a dangerously unfit president remained in office.
Graham stated, "Few Americans have observed the sweeping changes in the United States over the past decade as closely as I have or understood their corrosive connection to the evolution of Russian politics and government since the Gorbachev era. I was living in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed. I witnessed the disbelief of thousands of Russians. I saw ordinary citizens endure joblessness, food shortages, inadequate medical care, and unpaid pensions and salaries. These early Yeltsin years were chaotic, leaving many Russians longing for the familiar stability of communism. Putin and the KGB capitalized on this volatility with a perilous, reticent rise to power."
Survival describes "Democracy's Struggle to Survive" and is intended as a comparative assessment, an inspiration, and an intriguing collection of Substack messages written by some of the best-known, best-informed, and New York Times bestselling nonfiction authors of the last decade. It concludes that Ukraine and American democracy face a common enemy. The key difference is that while Ukrainians endure daily bombing and death, Americans are largely uninformed or in denial about their adversary.
The book lists observable consequences: increasing prices at the pump—about a 50% jump in one year; the loss of health care for ten million Americans in 2026; contaminated foods; an endless war costing nearly $2 billion per day; grocery store closures and price increases up to 40%; restaurant closures including Wendy's and Village Inn; massive discrimination and deaths through ICE and the closure of USAID, with an estimated 22 million preventable deaths projected by 2030 in Africa, mostly children (The Lancet); an assault on elections and voting procedures—in 2024, sixty polling sites in Georgia received bomb threats traced to Russian IP addresses, with similar threats in other states; and fires, arson, and bombings, including a South Carolina judge's house fire after she refused to hand over voter registration, and a catastrophic explosion at the Accurate Energetic Systems munitions facility in Tennessee that killed 16 employees and shipped munitions to Ukraine.
Like the roots of the tree on the cover of Survival, where slender fingers extend through the soil for nourishment, the United States must draw renewed strength from its own roots: the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
