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Okay, so it is kind of fascinating that in America's narrative discourse, there's a lie that is told.

It goes something like this.

The great threat to American democracy lies on the authoritarian right.

The authoritarian right is the biggest threat to

American democracy. This is something that you hear very often in the media. You hear it a lot from

Democratic Congress people. And they like to use as their example what happened on January 6th.

Now, January 6th was an act of criminality. It was an act of evil. And there was something

authoritarian to people attempting to stop the democratic processes from taking place and going forward

and working. For sure, you don't have to deny the presence of an authoritarian right to also

recognize that the centers of power in American life, the centers of institutional power

in American life do not lie with the authoritarian right. They lie with the authoritarian left.

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