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Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right

by Laura K. Field

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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer

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In the past, religious movements were the conspicuous vehicles of change. The conservatism of a religion—its orthodoxy—is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap. A rising religious movement is all change and experiment—open to new ...more

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