Western societies are at something of a paradoxical moment in which it feels as though our politics is captive to cynicism and naiveté in equal parts. Everyone else has a “hidden agenda.” Everyone else believes everything they hear. Everyone else is politically unclean. Everyone else should wake up to the fact that all these erratic and malicious interest groups are out to get us, or at least want to edit the messages on our disposable coffee cups. Everyone else is haunted by political demons. It is a politics of dark suspicion.
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