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24 Sep 2021

“The discovery that he [Donald Trump] has not in fact gone, but is still lurking on the internet disseminating conspiracy theories about the election, brings on the sick feeling you get two-thirds of the way into a horror movie, when a sense of calm is introduced prior to the biggest jump scare. Unlike the first time around, there is no possibility of laughing Trump off or assuming his idiocies won't find a sympathetic audience. At the rally last week, two Republican congressional candidates addressed the group. A recent CNN poll found that 78% of Republicans didn't believe that Biden legitimately won the presidency. Rightwing America, and therefore America as a whole, has yet to shake this guy off.”

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British author and a contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times
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