# Anyone else kind of disillusioned with America after Trump?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 8, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-kind-of-disillusioned-with-america-after-trump/937413 "2021-03-08T00:54:20Z")
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### Author: ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2021, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-kind-of-disillusioned-with-america-after-trump/937413/12 "2021-03-08T02:39:35Z")

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**Modhat** : No, stop. This thread is not an invite to debate this subject. Address the op, no hijack into who or what is causing it. Start a thread about it if you like.

> [@octopus](#):
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> What philosophical movement opposes Age of Enlightenment rationality? The folks influenced by and promoting post modernism.

> [@Kimstu](#):
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> Several, most prominently in the US Christian “family-values” conservatism and white-supremacist nationalism. These are accompanied by general anti-science and anti-facts delusionism such as QAnon and “stolen election” conspiracy theories, which I guess don’t really qualify as a “philosophical movement”.
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> The vast majority of the anti-rationality in US culture today is coming from the right wing, not the so-called “postmodernist” left.

> [@purplehorseshoe](#):
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> … by whom, in your opinion?

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