Reading the article, it’s hard to not see the parallels to actual Republican State Governments and politicians today: > The alternative reality was nothing but

Reading the article, it’s hard to not see the parallels to actual Republican State Governments and politicians today: > The alternative reality was nothing but a crooked mirror of the living public sphere, filled with clowns in the place of politicians, cheap imitations instead of functioning social welfare organizations, and propagandists instead of journalists and analysts. It was easy enough to cope; you could just never vote for the clown, never read the fake pundits [...]. They were nothing but terrible actors performing other people’s scripts — tools in a crude political game. There is an entire political party in the US that’s following this exact playbook. The difference with the GOP has simply been bringing back election manipulation schemes that were outlawed by the Voting Rights act to hold on to political power while claiming to be democratic.