How did American [reactionism] end up so detached from, indeed at odds with, facts and rationality? For it was not always thus. . . .

The point is that today’s dismal [White-Wing Party] field — is there anyone who doesn’t consider it dismal? — is no accident. Economic [reactionaries] played a cynical game, and now they’re facing the blowback, a party that suffers from “severe” [reactionism] in the worst way. . . .

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