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Perhaps nothing underscores how changed, if not corrupted, the conditions of the public sphere in the United States have become in 2021 than the weeks of chaos between the national elections of November 3, 2020, and Inauguration Day on January 20, 2021. Desperate to attain victory at almost any cost, President Trump openly challenged the legality of electoral outcomes in six key swing states, while claiming that widespread voter fraud, election tampering, and media misrepresentation had all been directed at his campaign to rob him of a second term in the White House. Millions of Republican voters did not question …