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Yet here was Trump, mere hours after polls closed in the middle of a global plague, implying that his brief, early lead in certain states equaled victory; that Biden’s growing gains constituted fraud; and that any ballot that had not been counted before 2:21 a.m. had been “found” and was somehow suspect.

These movies were the shadows of both World War I and a ruinous plague, cast across silver screens like a malignant memory that refused to be forgotten.

The academic adds that this is "really important to why vampires are so popular and on trend now, when you think of Nosferatu and its link to the plague, post Covid we're very interested in the vampire as contagion."

Just as these oligarchs are a plague on society, they are a plague on the news business.

The very same qualities that have made it nearly impossible to have any meaningful legal accountability stick to the former president in a court of law are now revealing themselves as the same things that plague journalism.