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Everyone got it wrong. Everyone overlooked the pews and focused on the shitty ground game the GOP had in the field. But every Sunday, evangelicals were being told from the pulpit that Donald was their guy and he’d make sure all their wildest theocratic fantasies would come true. Maybe something on this? Religiosity is going to become huge in the coming years and we non-Christian, non-Catholic people need to learn how to make inroads with people who have been told explicitly that *the other* is evil and will destroy your entire way of life. How the fuck do we fight against that? I guess that since all their stock has been put into one guy, Donald, as their new savior and when he finally leaves this mortal coil, his movement will go with him. Or they’ll become a death cult. And then shit will get REALLY weird.

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It is always nice to do some of that but the hardcore Christian Nationalists are probably utterly lost. They kicked David French out of his own church community.

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Good morning Daniel. I just started following you after joining Substack when Harris became the nominee. I’m very grateful for your posts. We all got it wrong. We thought we were a country based on moral principles.

What can we do to prevent our voices from being silenced? I just dumped X after the election. Am on bluesky now. Hoping to find more resisters.

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Resister, here! Gimme a follow on bluesky and I’ll follow ya back! @busybusybee.

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Follow me on bluesky and I’ll follow back (Democat)

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Just let the "HWSHADW" keep doing their analysis, Dan! I for one appreciate your honest takes, even if they turn out to be sometimes wrong. The People in their infinite (?) wisdom have made their choice with eyes wide open. It'll be an interesting and very possibly disastrous four (at a minimum) years ahead. Your sane writing will help readers deal with whatever comes.

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I don't think you have to change what you're doing. It turns out that we are all right . . . until we're wrong. The Republicans were just as wrong in 2012, not to mention 2020, and the Dems in 2016. Intellectual integrity demands that we acknowledge when we're proven wrong and try to better understand the landscape (Moynihan, facts). You've already shown in many posts that you can do that.

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Hello Daniel. I started reading you a while back when Heather Cox Richardson quoted some of your take on foreign policy. I grew to appreciate your insights and analysis, always delivered with some adroit wit. You give me things to think about. Quite frankly, I was planning to unsubscribe after the election, thinking we'd be in (relatively) safe hands, and I could stop thinking about the political world, domestic and foreign, for maybe the rest of my life. On to Plan B....whatever that turns out to be. But it does seem like independent journalism is more important than ever, and I will stay around a while longer for whatever insights you continue to provide. I do hope your work, as both a journalist and as an academic, escape the attention of the New Office of Big Brother so you can continue writing the truth as you see it.

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Appreciate you owning it. And you are not alone!

Do keep writing. Keeping track of the Schedule F implementation will be much appreciated.

Given this is where we are now, we have to think about "what does good look like?" as we move into this new world.

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Explore the global anti-incumbent sentiment. Is it just that inflation sucks or is there more to it? Will the trend end after the Canadian and German elections?

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Who is going to lead the democratic West if the US goes full isolationist?

I think we underrate the power and profit of our toxic media/social media. One thing I have been wondering is can this space produce an inspirational political figure (who wins) or is grievance and fear and insults the only stuff that gets traction now?

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I‘m sticking with you, Daniel! And I still think you had it right about the vibe - it was quite fantastic. But perhaps the Substack posts I get/read were all in that vibrant bubble. It was great and I look forward to it coming back.

My hopes for info here and elsewhere: what all was entailed in DT‘s ‘Little secret’? It seems to be coming out that online bots and influencers hiddenly pushed (even more) radical lies to an ever-more susceptible public. That’s a dangerous place that we’ve come to and have little capability to battle. I guess though, that I am almost hoping this is more the issue than ugly sexism and racism; that thought just depresses me.

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"That’s my brand! “Read Drezner’s World: He Might Well Be Wrong!”"

Hey, Jeff Mauer would like a word with you: https://imightbewrong.substack.com/p/were-in-a-joke-theft-epidemic

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What the new international order is going to be if the US is no longer interested in it and what states and civil society that are not interested in going right-wing populist are going to do

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I now realize that I have been living in a bubble. I now know what the country of my birth is.

Misogynistic, racist and fascist more than I could ever have imagined. If you are a woman in the future do not apply for the job kind of country.

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