“A healthier body politic would not have been infected by #Trump’s candidacy. How did the democratic immune system fail? He is gifted with a malign kind of charisma, but it needed a confluence of economic stagnation, cultural polarisation and technological revolution over many years to achieve maximum contagion.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/05/left-right-trump-harris-prisoners-political-nostalgia-extremism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other