Fourth & Democracy | A State in Trump’s Image, and Distractions over Epstein Files – Are We in Purgatory or Hell?

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There’s been a long-running joke on social media – half kidding, half coping mechanism – that we all died during COVID and this is either purgatory or hell. Lately, things have gotten so dark that people are starting to wish it were true.

We’re not here to sell you doom and gloom. …