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will reality TV politics be replaced by something more cinematic?

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Sean Monahan
Jul 16, 2021
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the purge

We love to imagine the end of America: California sliding into the Pacific in flames; New York quiet, desolate, and disordered after some unspeakable horror; tornados barreling through the plains; tsunamis engulfing coastlines; that white hot silent moment when a nuke ignites and the terrible screaming wind that follows.

It’s a particularly Amer…

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