On a Saturday afternoon in October 2020, in a small hotel conference room just outside Phoenix, Arizona, the mood was buoyant.
A gentleman wearing an unusual and elaborate headpiece scoffed and grunted my way as I entered the room. It was the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, and of the 60 or so people who gathered here, I was among the very few wearing a facemask. Some in the room didn’t believe Covid was even real.
The crowd cheered as they watched a clip of President Trump play on a television
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