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Jowan M.'s avatar

Beating Trump? Possible. Beating polarisation? Not so much. And that's the real beast the U.S. has to deal with. Trump is merely a symptom of polarisation, not the root-cause.

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Haukyn's avatar

Reminds me of Northrop Frye's idea of narrative modes and their historical repetition. Are we finally exiting the tired conventions of postmodern irony into a new mythic era, of great authoritarian heroes and, what inevitably follows, epic tragedies?

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