Each of the two countries that the election of 2020 exposed is split by two narratives—Smart and Just on one side, Free and Real on the other. The tensions within each country will persist even as the cold civil war between them rages on. But the election, forcing a binary choice, temporarily consolidated the narratives on either side of the divide

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L’originalité de Trump, c’est de conjoindre dans un même geste, premièrement, la fuite en avant vers le profit maximal en abandonnant le reste du monde à son sort (pour représenter les « petites gens » on fait appel à des milliardaires !) ; deuxièmement, la fuite en arrière de tout un peuple vers le retour aux catégories nationales et ethniques (« 

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If a Trump voter in 2020 does not personally know even a single Biden voter, that voter might understandably wonder how Biden could have won the election. Preliminary survey research suggests that the likelihood that a Trump voter becomes an election denier depends not just on the intensity of his or her own beliefs—but also on how large a share of

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