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"Exit take: The hangover from the Trump era is likely to linger for decades."

It can't be said enough that this was in the making for decades before the perfect useful idiot descended the escalator in 2015. I listed to "right-wing" talk radio regularly in the '90s to '10s, and often agreed on many issues, but I could detect an increasing authoritarian paranoia of hosts and callers alike. Irrational anti-science and anti-reason was often at the center of it. Evangelicals and "seculars" alike craved a "savior," not a patriotic leader who accepts that his job is to serve his country, not vice versa. It may take decades, but someday the remaining "flock" will gradually realize "be careful what you ask for."

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