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Of the four factions identified, only one - Just America - cannot stand having any opposing factions in the same body politic. And now that very faction prescribes its overriding value of equality as way of proselytizing, rather than coexisting with, the other three factions. Not going to happen - the other factions have grown distrustful[1].

[1] https://www.axios.com/media-trust-crisis-2bf0ec1c-00c0-4901-...

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Really? I mean, you don't think Real America also has a problem with coexistence? It's all the fault of the hippies?

I mean, just trivially: to a Real American, Smart Americans are The Globalist Elites controlling their lives and Just Americans are the domestic terrorists who burned down the country last summer. This kind of rhetoric is everywhere among the Trumpist right, not just among shitposters on the internet but coming out of the mouths of media figures, elected officials and thought leaders.

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