liberals get lots of help from media elites to sell the myth about the dark cloud, antidemocracy cloud hanging over the g.o.p. even former conservative david burke, who are kind of stuck in an early 20s time warp help market the trunk as authoritarian myth, writing trumpian authoritarianism doesn t renounce holy war, it embraces holy war, assumes it is permanent. in fact, seeks to make it so. in the trumpian war, disputes are settled by raw power and intimidation. holy war? has david never heard of dick cheney? does he really not know how often the bush family relied on raw power and intimidation to get his way? he goes on. as long as the warrior ethos dominates the g.o.p., brutality will be admired over benevolence, propaganda over discourse, confrontation over