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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.

Older adults like YA as well because it has depth for the curious mind to unpack a little bit, or if you’re a nerdy, curious person like me, it ticks that box too.