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S.V. Dáte is a senior White House correspondent at HuffPost. His new update to The Useful Idiot offers a stark warning about the perils facing America, as exposed by Donald Trump's failed "QAnon Coup" attempt of January 6, 2021, the last gasp in his months-long effort to remain in power despite losing re-election resoundingly.

Dáte is the author of five novels and two political biographies, including one of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. He has been a journalist for three decades, including at the Associated Press, the Palm Beach Post, National Journal and NPR. He is a blue water sailor, tallying 15,000 ocean miles aboard a 44-foot cutter with his two children, as they sailed across the Atlantic, through the Mediterranean and back via the Caribbean.