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I'm not sure that’s all entirely a bad thing. Folks have been sleepwalking; we’ve been waiting for someone to come save us. The optimist in me says maybe we have a chance to shed that. The resigned pragmatist in me says maybe societal destabilization is the only way to end oligarchy.

But I'm not sure it’s all entirely a good thing either. Conditions now feel ripe for demagoguery, savior-seeking, witch-burning, all kinds of ugliness. Trump was elected on this same unmoored desperation.