locus

The cable news landscape has long been a locus of information overload, which only accelerated during Trump’s first presidency.

The locus is always the president’s unspooling brain, but the precise navigation is left to the actors.

And as the culture wars became a right-wing obsession, the locus of coercion and violence was transferred from foreign crusades to domestic soil.

“And it can be a real locus for conspiracy theories, further undermining confidence of voters and election results.”

Hope springs from empowerment, feeling a sense of personal agency as the locus of control shifts from the outside in.