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"Trump will never be president" is an excellent support of TFA's thesis: it was said by people who were not so much terminally online as terminally reading, and who were therefore convinced that no one who is demonstrably illiterate (having a command of the oral register but not the written) in his mother tongue could become president*. In 2016, some large percentage of the US electorate was already post-language (or at least post-literacy), as they agreed the lack of literacy(/language) was no impediment.

* despite having been indoctrinated for years that the genius of the States is that "anyone can become president"?

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The genius of the US is that, no matter who becomes president, the country still functions pretty well.