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America just set itself on fire as it descends further into chaos: expert
The Breakage Was Not MysteriousPower Wrote the DamageStephen Marche’s July 4 op-ed uses the language of national collapse, but the facts in the piece point to something much less mystical: people with institutional power are making choices, and those choices are reshaping the country on purpose. Trump is not an accident. Florida and Texas rewriting school curricula are not side effects. “Originalists” hollowing out constitutional meaning are not confused observers. They are actors with authority, and they are using it.Collapse Is a Cover StoryThe op-ed gestures toward a long arc of decline…
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