Link: https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/d7e07dc3-dad1-41e3-992a-28b4aa4e0b47

Disclaimer: There is more to this first part of a piece, but it's for subscribers only. This post is not about the non-free part.

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The thing is: The argument that America had undergone a massive rightward shift was less a factual contention and more an ideological assertion, an article of faith. It has proven to be a stubbornly resistant myth that is exceedingly hard to kill.