William Lindsey 

"If we don’t take seriously some of these more underlying problems—that we are a deeply isolated and lonely and distrustful country that is focused on material wellbeing and status and is more dislocated and civically apathetic than maybe we’ve ever been—we’re going to get more Trumps, because that’s just fertile breeding ground for people like him."

~ Alan Elrod

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https://newrepublic.com/article/208976/transcript-trump-america-deeply-unwell-it-time-say

Transcript: Trump’s America Is Deeply Unwell, and It’s Time to Say So

As Trump reveals his unfitness in stark new ways, a political theorist argues that our election of this man to the presidency twice should prompt deep introspection about what we’ve become.

The New Republic
Apr 13 at 8:56pmWeb
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 1d ago

"It’s not so much that there’s 50-something percent of the country that is committed to Trumpism. But there’s just a huge amount of the country that is not doing well—and I mean that in an emotional way, I mean that in a political way, civically."

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