No need to specify then vs now it’s just RDR2

Who the fuck says fallout 76

Harry Truman and Thomas Dewey, the governor of New York and Republican presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948

This excerpt comes from a different book than the one I’ve been posting, came out in 2023

Yeah I have noticed increasingly that people will no longer talk about the possible upsides of tariffs but just that the downsides haven't been as catastrophic as people believed in April (because they've lowered the effective tariffs a ton since April)

Hahaha look at my magic tariff button that works so well you don’t even notice it all!

That’s my pfp

Obviously the problems we’re facing today all predate the pandemic but that really was a formative moment for my personal disillusionment with American society. It was the confluence of insane conspiracies, lack of concern for the general welfare of others, attacks on empiricism and so on.

Yes that’s essentially what the book describes.

American political actors when they realize Trump isn’t god king