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Can Dems avoid a midterm 'shellacking?'

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You Knew in the Halls of the Us. Capital on January Sixth

i at the core of this movement is really a sense of dispossession, a feeling that something rightfully belonging to them has been taken away. I don't think that they're faking it, or cynically describing themselves as victims in order to rationalize attacking the capital for exm example. The fact that they're not means that they have to invent or except a fabricated adversaries and antagonists to rationalize that emotional experience of victim hood. That's where conspiracy theorists come in. It's where purveyors of propaganda come in. And politicians like trump come in because they're constantly a, providing these a phantom menaces an order for their followers to feel constantly under threat.

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