out in the open

In five and a half hours in this once bustling city we saw two people out in the open, on foot.

“There have definitely been corporate campaigns and corporate spending, but nothing on this scale, and nothing that is so out in the open ... just radically and transparently transactional.”

"I hope we can get this all out in the open," he added.

What emerges, if one also assumes that nothing good can come from three right-wing billionaires conspiring, is a grim portrait of the political reality in 2024: that there is an international plot — increasingly out in the open — to undermine democracy in the United States and elsewhere.

That’s a star chamber – right out in the open.