"I think the existential threat to the survival of the republic are not people who believe all this, but rather the mechanisms of propaganda that perpetuate it."

Yup. I have said for years that the alphabet legacy media are the real cancer among us, that if the media were just honest and straightforward, with integrity, the Democrat Party would be at most a fringe element in American politics. Without the near-complete support of the "mechanisms of propaganda", the Dem Party would be nothing.

Wanna fix America? First, burn down the alphabet legacy media and salt the earth where they stood.

And as we've seen over the past 24 hours, yeah, "there is no integrity of the State".