ABSTRACT
The Trump administration’s removal of Obama-era pandemic responsiveness measures forced the country into unprecedented levels of crisis, unemployment, indigence, lack of healthcare, and death. As the crisis was playing itself out, it seemed to the author that the logical ends of both of the movements that she have discussed were meeting their makers—the anti-science and expert-skeptical views of the right were causing unprecedented amounts of death and destruction. By the end of spring 2020, it felt as if the peoples were faced with either the end of democracy and the institution of an anti-scientific banana republic, or November elections would proceed, Biden would claim the presidency if the right coalitions banded together in favor of democracy over all else, and expertise.
