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“When we first caught wind that they were thinking about taking time off from where they were at,” Willingham continued, “we said, ‘Hey, listen, we’re over here making cool nerdy things.

This matters because Peterson is up there with Musk for representing the more secular, nerdy wing of MAGA, which also happens to be comprised of some of the most fairweather Trump supporters.

There’s the nerdy caretaker, the self-assured artist, the damaged orchard worker, the bored DJ and the literature professor who thinks she’s French.

"So I'm going to govern in econometrics," he said of the nerdy mathematical strain of economics.

It blooms as the pages turn, like a prickly flower, beginning with the story of the corpulent, nerdy, sci-fi-obsessed title character growing up in Paterson, N.J.