By politicians sucking up to Trump, they devastate citizens' trust. Ordinary citizen reaction who are loosing trust in politics - 4 emotions of distrust: 1) feeling unsafe 2) feeling powerless to affect the process 3) feeling betrayed 4) feeling of opacity , unintelligibility of politics (as multiple sports played in the same game)

Escape from causality is still a democratic instinct.

A complement to Vlad's substack on same subject

While there is no DEFINITION of fascism, Vlad Vexler suggest 7 core features, and analyses their presence in the speech of Stephen Miller. Arrives at Miller's speech having 'defining features' of fascism.