Jon Lovett
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There's a little bit of a lack of like, hey, we're America.
First of all, we're a big, fractious place with multiple levels of government.
We are a rebellious and freedom-loving people.
And we don't like being told what to do for good and for ill.
That's who we are.
We talk a lot about the grievance part of what a fascistic government offers, right?
You can point at the right enemies.
You can galvanize people to turn against the other.
We talk about that a lot.
But there's another part of it, which is meaning and purpose, right?
This only can happen if there's a real gap of meaning and purpose in a society.
And I do think we are in that.
That is a feeling people have.
We talk to people.
There is...
You can see it in whatever.
You want to talk about loneliness.
You talk about the ways in people feel like kind of disconnected from each other, the lack of community.
People stopped going to churches and started doing horoscopes, whatever.