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When was the last time you felt like you could trust your government?
More specifically, when was the last time you felt you might be able to trust a particular politician?
I’d been on a long run of deep cynicism about all of it after the 2020 election. I neither believed that Joe Biden (who barely campaigned and clearly was suffering from the early stages of dementia) won the most votes in history, nor that the Trump camp’s bleating about a stolen election had anything substantial to back it up. I was caught in a web of improbability and lies, and becoming far too cynical to care. I was going through my own personal crisis of faith, and identity, and career, and the last thing I could get myself to care about was politics.
Although everyone’s experiences were different, I know many other Americans felt deeply jaded after the debacle of the 2020 election, the confusing narratives around January 6, and the promise of a “Kraken” that never materialized.
But for many of us, something changed in a very unexpected fashion on July 13, 2024, when Donald Trump, who felt like an at best dark horse comeback candidate at the time, narrowly missed an assassin’s bullet through an uncannily coincidental — some say miraculous — turn of the head.
Rather than be cowed by the ongoing gunfire and chaos, he struggled to his feet, and in one of the most iconic moments ever photographed in world history, raised his fist, and yelled, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
Continued below.
More specifically, when was the last time you felt you might be able to trust a particular politician?
I’d been on a long run of deep cynicism about all of it after the 2020 election. I neither believed that Joe Biden (who barely campaigned and clearly was suffering from the early stages of dementia) won the most votes in history, nor that the Trump camp’s bleating about a stolen election had anything substantial to back it up. I was caught in a web of improbability and lies, and becoming far too cynical to care. I was going through my own personal crisis of faith, and identity, and career, and the last thing I could get myself to care about was politics.
Although everyone’s experiences were different, I know many other Americans felt deeply jaded after the debacle of the 2020 election, the confusing narratives around January 6, and the promise of a “Kraken” that never materialized.
But for many of us, something changed in a very unexpected fashion on July 13, 2024, when Donald Trump, who felt like an at best dark horse comeback candidate at the time, narrowly missed an assassin’s bullet through an uncannily coincidental — some say miraculous — turn of the head.
Rather than be cowed by the ongoing gunfire and chaos, he struggled to his feet, and in one of the most iconic moments ever photographed in world history, raised his fist, and yelled, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
Continued below.
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