Some of President Trump’s true believers may be “disarmed” by his Tele-Prompted condemnation of violence (“unequivocally,” no less) in an effort to escape Senate conviction on the House impeachment resolution citing the violence he has fomented. He may well dodge that bullet. But that won’t stop the people he’s led across a Rubicon that separates believing harmless conspiracy theories from making conspiracies that kill.
The dangers we must meet are both immediate and long-term: Right now, government must stop authoritarians without internalizing their authoritarian premises and practices. In the longer-term, we must end economic abuses that have driven millions of Americans to seek revenge and relief through Trumpism.
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