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Salon
Salon
Politics
Andrew O'Hehir

Tucker falls — but Dark Brandon endures

There are more people who love Donald Trump than who love Joe Biden; I think that's indisputable. 

The thing is, love isn't all that important in politics — or at least in Normieville, so-called-democratic politics. To a large degree, that's what confused a lot of people into storming the Capitol in stupid outfits, and a much larger number of people into believing it was kind of cool and at least somewhat justified that it happened. It was about magical thinking and conspiracy theory — which are both really compelling — and about the obvious fact that many, many people had passionate feelings about Trump, while hardly anybody had any such feelings about Biden. 

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