proportion into some doomsday international story about the death of white america s way of life. this is all you hear about on right wing raidia and rumble, they re killing us, that s the election narrative and this 12u6 trickles down destroying civil discourse, even at a local level. neighbors turn on neighbors. normally easy going elections turn into existential battles. it feels like there s republican bars and democrat bars, kmong ground ee roads largely because there s no common media ground anymore. it s as if america s been swallowed up by qanon conspiracy theories. freedom of expression feels trampled, muscled. and, remember, as all of this is happening, as democracy deteriorates in 2024, trump s enablers claim they re the ones protecting democracy. they think, or at least they pretend, they re upholding the declaration of independence. they cloak their autocratic