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My parents had been ridiculous to hide under their desks in the 1950s and 1960s, I thought, waiting for bombs that never dropped and invaders that never came. My main resource on the end of the Cold War may have been the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change” video, but my casual conviction that America was indomitable put me in the mainstream. Adults told me I lived in the last superpower and I believed them. I wondered what it would be like to live in a country torn apart from within, like the USSR, and have your whole life upended. I don’t wonder about that anymore.
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
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