I make this observation because while reading the book I was kind of waiting for this point to be made ... of some Democrats' tremendous own goal attacking Trump for being the traitor and Russian spy he's not instead of as the right-wing populist he actually is. Like ... I wonder what the connection between that kind of "centrist" insanity/orhodoxy (think TINA, War on Drugs etc.) and COVID-style conspiracies is, at the end of the day.