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Hank Greenspan's avatar

Generally agree with this analysis. I think there is also a particular attraction to willful violence in American culture that is not reducible to macho performance or even gun culture. Along with that, it reflects a pervasive loneliness, suppressed sense of helplessness/lostness, that facilitates the Savior/Strong Man cult even more powerfully than in countries in which church, family, and traditional communities ground identity more strongly. And, of course, that's that the Strong Man promises to make "great again."

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