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via Spin.com

Three days had passed since the 2024 presidential election and, like millions of other Americans, Devo co-founder/frontman Mark Mothersbaugh was baffled by the outcome. One of the masterminds behind the Postcards for Democracy art project, Mothersbaugh has been deeply interested in politics since the 1970s. Devo itself is short for “de-evolution,” the idea that mankind has stopped progressing and is instead now regressing.

With Donald Trump headed back to the White House, for half of the country it’s difficult to argue otherwise. But for now, Mothersbaugh is doing his best to embrace an alternate perspective.

“I’m just impressed with how many people could be attracted to the president that’s elected now,” Mothersbaugh tells SPIN with a sense of bewilderment. “He’s going to be our president next year. I’m just impressed because his techniques all seem like warning signs of reasons why not to honor him.

“I’m curious to see where it goes because over half the country seems to be approving. Maybe this is a year I learn something that I didn’t know before. I guess it’ll be interesting to see which things he was telling the truth about and which things he was lying about.”

Postcards for Democracy, launched alongside artist Beatie Wolfe in 2020, carries on Mothersbaugh’s tradition of making postcard art, something he did even before the early days of Devo. In fact, it was a postcard that brought Devo bassist Gerald “Jerry” Casale and Mothersbaugh together while studying art at Kent State University…

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