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“LaFrance’s checklist of optimal conditions for it tracks dynamics that nurture grievance almost exactly: “highly visible wealth disparity, declining trust in democratic institutions, a perceived sense of victimhood, intense partisan estrangement based on identity, rapid demographic change, flourishing conspiracy theories, violent and dehumanizing rhetoric against the ‘other,’ a sharply divided electorate, and a belief among those who flirt with violence that they can get away with it.” Our grievances, unchecked, aren’t just ugly. They’re deadly.”
― The Age of Grievance
― The Age of Grievance
“But the episode was illustrative nonetheless of a nasty and menacing trend that was coursing through the state’s politics. It was a trend fueled by root causes national in scope and years in the making: an increasingly polarized electorate, the erosion of trust in civic institutions, the advent of social media with its cordoned-off silos filled with hate and conspiracy theories.”
― Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election
― Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election
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