Something is being done to this country. Not something that happened-something happening now, by identifiable actors, with identifiable goals. The Villainization of America documents the operation that converted honest criticism of genuine American failures into a totalized narrative of irredeemable evil. Richard Lowe traces the domestic architects-academia, media, K-12 education, corporate culture-and the foreign adversaries who recognized what American institutions were building and made it sharper. The book distinguishes reckoning from villainization, maps the cost, and makes the case for the story worth defending. Part of the Enemies of You series.