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I wasn’t planning on reading any of the new batch of Donald Trump books. His vampiric hold on the nation’s attention for five years was nightmarish enough; one of the small joys of the post-Trump era is that it’s become possible to ignore him for days at a time.
But after reading an article adapted from “Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost” by Michael C. Bender, a Wall Street Journal reporter, I changed my mind and picked it up. What caught my attention wasn’t his reporting on White House disarray and Trump’s terrifying impulses some details are new, but that story is familiar. Rather, I was fascinated by Bender’s account of the people who followed Trump from rally to rally like authoritarian Deadheads.
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Sure, the bulk of the rioters didn’t
mean any harm, exactly… any more than the superspreaders at the Sturgis bike rally last summer
intended to kill themselves & their loved ones. They were just, like,
deeply involved in fun group events with a few thousand of their
closest friends!
… They were mostly older White men and women who lived paycheck to paycheck with plenty of time on their hands retired or close to it, estranged from their families or otherwise without children and Trump had, in a surprising way, made their lives richer. The president himself almost always spent the night in his own bed and kept few close friends. But his rallies gave the [Front Row] Joes a reason to travel the country, staying at one another’s homes, sharing hotel rooms and carpooling. Two had married and later divorced by Trump’s second year in office.
To Trump s hard-core supporters, his rallies weren t politics They were life
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