Opinion | At the Waco Rally and Beyond, Trump’s Movement Now Commands Him - The New York Times
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virtually every speaker at Trump’s marathon rally. One after another, they looked at a seething, conspiracy-addled crowd and indulged, fed, and stoked every element of their furious worldview. I didn’t see a single true leader on Trump’s stage, not even Trump himself. I saw a collection of followers, each vying for the affection of the real power in Waco, the coddled populist mob.
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To understand the social and political dynamic on the modern right, you have to understand how millions of Americans became inoculated against the truth