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That’s where Randall and Mother Abagail find themselves in opposite camps.
And yet he needs this adulation and this kind of worship from these people whom hes summoned to him.

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He needs to have them make a show all the time of how grateful they are to him.
Cavell makes the obvious connection to our current reality: “And theres something fundamentally weak about that.
Does it remind you of someone you know?
Mother Abagail, a 108-year-old prophet faced with doubts, is “very, very righteous and very good.
But really flawed I feel, Goldberg said.
Ive been fighting with not making her the Magic Negro, because shes complicated.
Over the last however-many years, we have sort of taken for granted the structure of democracy.
Now, so much of that is being ripped down to the studs.
Its interesting to see a story about people who are rebuilding it from the ground up.
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