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Roger Stone poses for photographs as a painting by Elisabeth Miller titled “Lion of Judah on the Resolute Desk” is displayed during the ReAwaken America Tour at Cornerstone Church in Batavia, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. While smaller in scale, the ReAwaken shows are similar in tone to the rallies former President Trump holds. Grievance and contempt for government institutions are regular themes. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Note that the lion is the zoological symbol of the recently-formed US Patriot Party, an extremist splinter party that started to secede from the Republican Party because the Republican Party was not adequately pro-Trump.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.