It’s a mass of people with varying degrees of committal to its core tenants, as well as all holding sometimes opposite views about what those tenants are, all United by some level of blind allegiance to the American civic religion and a heroic ability to hold conflicting and contradictory ideology at the same time. It may die down at some point but I don’t know if it’ll schism as much as simply continue to mutate.
It’s a mass of people with varying degrees of committal to its core tenants, as well as all holding sometimes opposite views about what those tenants are, all United by some level of blind allegiance to the American civic religion and a heroic ability to hold conflicting and contradictory ideology at the same time. It may die down at some point but I don’t know if it’ll schism as much as simply continue to mutate.