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When people are made to feel like nothing really matters anymore, and the “system” and “the elites” and their society are broken and illegitimate, they will engage in behavior that is individually and collectively destructive.

His four-star review also praised Paul Mescal for his performance as the illegitimate son of Russell Crowe’s Maximus, Lucius, and called him a "formidable lead".

Clinton’s loss to Trump in 2016, I told the editor of a prominent policy journal that his and her Clintonite regime is “illegitimate and unsustainable.”

"It was just an illegitimate system, and it had to do with feeling like the fault approach just wasn't capturing what we should really care about, which is whether a marriage had failed or not," Grossman said.

The calls to “stop the count!” ultimately led to the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and the doubts Trump planted in the minds of his followers have since hardened into belief: Nearly 70% of Republicans believe that Biden’s 2020 win was illegitimate.