As Donald Trump stood at the heart of American politics—both physically and symbolically—on Monday afternoon during his inauguration at the U.S. Capitol, it’s almost as if the national stage has been redesigned around him for the foreseeable future. He’s managed to not only occupy the political center but also the cultural one, much to the chagrin of his detractors. One wonders if anyone informed Carrie Underwood, who performed ‘America the Beautiful’ at the event, or the country’s most prominent entrepreneurs, or even the Village People, that they were part of a Trump revival? The very fact that a disco group from the 70s was performing at a preinaugural rally for a Republican president-elect is a testament to the unexpected twists this political era has taken.
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