identity, and what is healthy identity and what is destructive identity. But, you know, Fukuyama's got a whole book about this, you know, about how ideology went away. So now you're just left with pure dynamics of belonging and what belong. And again, Russia got to that very, very early. This idea, they twig very early that Putin doesn't can't be ideological, because people don't believe in any ideologies. And also, like, he needs to cobble together a lot of other people. And so they come up with this idea of creating what they call the Putin's Coeblitions Tour, which is translated as the Putin majority, but it's much closer to what Trump refers to as the American people, the real people, the true people. It's this amorphous emotional thing that anybody can project themselves into, which is really defined by what it's not the enemies, the enemies of the states. First, it's the oligarchs, then it's the West, it can move around. So it really is about giving people that sense of belonging (44/57)
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