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How Star Wars reveals conservatives’ authoritarian fantasies
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Former Mitch McConnell adviser and GOP operative Scott Jennings defended Emperor Palpatine ’s violent vision for a galactic empire.
Now, of course, Star Wars is entirely science fiction.
But this past week , the final episodes of Andor dropped about how the rebellion came to be, dropped.
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