Very often, when leaders repeat things over and over, they are preparing you for when that meme actually emerges in reality.

Getting out to protest, this is something real and, I would say, something patriotic. Part of the new authoritarianism is to get people to prefer fiction and inaction to reality and action.

Nowadays, it's all about meme meme meme!

It is not hard to see why Trump might choose Putin as his fantasy friend. Putin is the real-world version of the person Trump pretends to be on television.

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms.