Morons at the Gate: Part 1

Being a moron in America today takes more than low intelligence

Steve Genco
9 min readMar 29, 2024

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A painting depicting Visigoths attacking and overrunning Rome in 410 A.D.
We’ve been here before, but the Visigoths were better organized than today’s Republicans. The sack of Rome, 410 A.D. Public domain.

Should Donald Trump somehow manage to get himself reelected, this post will probably land me a basement-level cell in one of his snazzy new concentration camps. But I can’t help myself.

Here is a hard truth. You can’t understand what’s happening in America today without facing up to the…

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Steve Genco

Steve is author of Intuitive Marketing (2019) & Neuromarketing for Dummies (2013). He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University.