recognizable, Bolsonaro or bad, you know, there's another pattern here, by the way, these are all men of a certain age. So I didn't, there's another kind of like through line here when it comes to identity. Which I'd love to explore. I just think it's just pretty self-evident, isn't it? I don't even know what to say. It's so obvious that there are a certain type of men, you know, projecting a certain type of masculinity and appealing to people who feel under threat, I suppose. But we can go deeper, you're right. So all those things are very similar. But then I'd say also that the rise of conspiratorial narratives, aside from the power bit, the appeal of conspiratorial narratives, so again, throughout Eastern Europe, about Vucic here, the rise of it, I mean, the US, and really conspiratorial thinking being the thing that replaces ideology. So we always have conspiracy theories. The Soviets had their conspiracy theories that the bourgeoisie were behind everything. But that conspiracy (50/57)
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