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"The fantasy world of Movement Conservatives is no longer fringe talk. The leading candidates for the..." — Heather Cox Richardson
The fantasy world of Movement Conservatives is no longer fringe talk. The leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination embrace it. They are playing to a chorus of true believers, and they are preaching what that choir wants to hear. They are following the same pattern Eric Hoffer identified as the path to authoritarianism.
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