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‘Star Trek: Picard’ nails one thing the Star Wars sequels borked - Raw Story

Arthur Miller warned that "millions of Americans are aching for Ayatollah." Not even a man of the late playwright's brilliance could have predicted that the leader who commands cultlike devotion from the increasingly rabid and dangerous mass of citizens who reject rationality — to say nothing of democracy — would turn out to be a tabloid fixture with a golden penthouse straight out of Liberace's fantasies.

For reasons both understandable and more insidious, the mainstream media has obsessed over the "Trump base," those being the voters who, as the president himself once boasted, would support him even if he "shot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue." Endless profiles of crusty Caucasians fill newspaper pages, all with identical or interchangeable details: the unemployed factory worker stares out the window while smoking a cigarette, lamenting the failures of the system and the repression of political correctness, but celebrating the tell-it-like-it-is, tough-guy virtues of his hero, the supposedly successful businessman who lies with every utterance, and who has enjoyed more privilege and more financial support from his family than the British royals.

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