Trump’s Lost Cause takes its fuel from conspiratorial myths of all kinds, rehearsed for years on Trump media and social media platforms. Its guiding theories include: Christianity under duress and attack; large corrupt cities full of Black and brown people manipulated by liberal
elites; Barack Obama as alien; a socialist movement determined to tax you into subservience to “big government”; liberal media out to crush family and conservative values; universities and schools teaching the young a history that hates America; resentment of nonwhite immigrants
who threaten a particular national vision; and whatever hideous new version of a civil religion QAnon represents.
An effective, enduring Lost Cause story needs to know clearly what it hates, has to attain widespread control of its own communication and needs institutional
An effective, enduring Lost Cause story needs to know clearly what it hates, has to attain widespread control of its own communication and needs institutional
rooting, and it must explain almost everything. It converts loss and longstanding grievance into community, and promises of victory on altars of strife. @jimcramer @tomkeene @riskreversal @EpsilonTheory @Convertbond @carlquintanilla @realdonaldtrump @ScottWapnerCNBC
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