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Tom Nichols/The Atlantic:
A Failure of Imagination About Trump
American minds are not ready to think about how fast democracy could disintegrate.
In a recent interview with Time magazine, Donald Trump once again told Americans what he will do to their system of government. Why don’t they believe him? ...
One problem has been around as long as the republic: Americans don’t pay attention to politics, and when they do, they frequently blame the current president for whatever is going wrong in their lives. For most people, economic cause and effect is mostly notional; if gas prices are high today, or if someone is still not working despite low unemployment rates, it’s because of the guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Combine this with the peculiar amnesia that helps people forget how many Americans needlessly died of COVID while Trump talked about injecting bleach, and you have a population that fondly remembers how good they had it during a terrifying pandemic.