F.P. Dunneagin
@dunneagin.bsky.social
Political Satirist | Essayist | Host of Civics Unhinged: paragraph.com/@civicsinhinged. Chronicles America’s circus politics with Twain-Buchwald-Swift bite in essays, books, podcasts, and The Dunneagin Chronicles — his backstage journal.
1/3 The New York Times can dissect the moral failures of the past with exquisite clarity. Its Rhinelander coverage (tinyurl.com/5n63vxdc) names racism, spectacle, and institutional cruelty without flinching—because doing so now costs nothing.
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December 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
1/3 The New York Times can dissect the moral failures of the past with exquisite clarity. Its Rhinelander coverage (tinyurl.com/5n63vxdc) names racism, spectacle, and institutional cruelty without flinching—because doing so now costs nothing.
New today: The Real Foreign Invasion — The threat wasn’t coming from abroad; it was building from within. Borders don’t need tanks to fall — just citizens convinced the ballot is an enemy.
🎧 US-UK + FR + DE editions live now @ dunneagin.substack.com
Democracy deserves a multilingual defense.
🎧 US-UK + FR + DE editions live now @ dunneagin.substack.com
Democracy deserves a multilingual defense.
~ Civics Unhinged: Dispatches From Trumpistan ~ | F.P. Dunneagin | Substack
Civics Unhinged stands as a lighthouse in the fogbank of Trump-era political delusion. Click to read ~ Civics Unhinged: Dispatches From Trumpistan ~, by F.P. Dunneagin, a Substack publication. Launche...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
New today: The Real Foreign Invasion — The threat wasn’t coming from abroad; it was building from within. Borders don’t need tanks to fall — just citizens convinced the ballot is an enemy.
🎧 US-UK + FR + DE editions live now @ dunneagin.substack.com
Democracy deserves a multilingual defense.
🎧 US-UK + FR + DE editions live now @ dunneagin.substack.com
Democracy deserves a multilingual defense.
"Penniless by Design" —— Trump didn’t just eliminate pennies — he eliminated the belief that small people matter. Rounding away value is rounding away dignity. In his America, exact change is rebellion.
Now at: 👉 tinyurl.com/yyjzetdv
#CivicsUnhinged #PennilessByDesign #TariffTax #ReceiptsDontLie
Now at: 👉 tinyurl.com/yyjzetdv
#CivicsUnhinged #PennilessByDesign #TariffTax #ReceiptsDontLie
Penniless by Design
When Donald Trump pulled the plug on minting new pennies — declaring the humble one-cent coin a relic of “government inefficiency” — many Americans shrugged. After all, a penny is hardly worth the met...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"Penniless by Design" —— Trump didn’t just eliminate pennies — he eliminated the belief that small people matter. Rounding away value is rounding away dignity. In his America, exact change is rebellion.
Now at: 👉 tinyurl.com/yyjzetdv
#CivicsUnhinged #PennilessByDesign #TariffTax #ReceiptsDontLie
Now at: 👉 tinyurl.com/yyjzetdv
#CivicsUnhinged #PennilessByDesign #TariffTax #ReceiptsDontLie
Trump doesn’t negotiate — he appeases.
Friedman just noticed.
Some of us called it back in March.
The original essay, now restored to the archive:
🔗 Trump’s Chamberlain Moment: paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
#CivicsUnhinged #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #TrumpDiplomacy
#Appeasement #Authoritarianism
Friedman just noticed.
Some of us called it back in March.
The original essay, now restored to the archive:
🔗 Trump’s Chamberlain Moment: paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
#CivicsUnhinged #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #TrumpDiplomacy
#Appeasement #Authoritarianism
Civics Unhinged
A chronicle of American absurdity, written with a straight face and a sharp pen. Civics Unhinged — satire for those who still give a damn.
paragraph.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Trump doesn’t negotiate — he appeases.
Friedman just noticed.
Some of us called it back in March.
The original essay, now restored to the archive:
🔗 Trump’s Chamberlain Moment: paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
#CivicsUnhinged #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #TrumpDiplomacy
#Appeasement #Authoritarianism
Friedman just noticed.
Some of us called it back in March.
The original essay, now restored to the archive:
🔗 Trump’s Chamberlain Moment: paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
#CivicsUnhinged #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #TrumpDiplomacy
#Appeasement #Authoritarianism
The world’s newest king doesn’t wear a crown — he owns the satellites above your head that shape what you see. The Techno-Monarch exposes how one mogul’s “innovation” has become a bid for dominion.
#CivicsUnhinged #TechnoMonarch #PerformanceState
Read it here: paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
#CivicsUnhinged #TechnoMonarch #PerformanceState
Read it here: paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
Civics Unhinged
A chronicle of American absurdity, written with a straight face and a sharp pen. Civics Unhinged — satire for those who still give a damn.
paragraph.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The world’s newest king doesn’t wear a crown — he owns the satellites above your head that shape what you see. The Techno-Monarch exposes how one mogul’s “innovation” has become a bid for dominion.
#CivicsUnhinged #TechnoMonarch #PerformanceState
Read it here: paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
#CivicsUnhinged #TechnoMonarch #PerformanceState
Read it here: paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
History is not a costume party — but the GOP insists on playing dress-up with Founding Fathers they’ve never met and virtues they’ve never shared. The Inheritance They Wish They Had is out now. Time to separate lineage from lies. #RegimeByRobe #HeritageHustle
Read it: paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
Read it: paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
Civics Unhinged
A chronicle of American absurdity, written with a straight face and a sharp pen. Civics Unhinged — satire for those who still give a damn.
paragraph.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
History is not a costume party — but the GOP insists on playing dress-up with Founding Fathers they’ve never met and virtues they’ve never shared. The Inheritance They Wish They Had is out now. Time to separate lineage from lies. #RegimeByRobe #HeritageHustle
Read it: paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
Read it: paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
The government can peel back the veil on secrets involving billionaires and exploitation…but can’t pass the basic funding bills required to serve the public.
That’s not transparency.
That’s a performance state.
That’s not transparency.
That’s a performance state.
November 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The government can peel back the veil on secrets involving billionaires and exploitation…but can’t pass the basic funding bills required to serve the public.
That’s not transparency.
That’s a performance state.
That’s not transparency.
That’s a performance state.
New post: The GOP’s favorite arsonist of government is back — and this time he’s holding the algorithm. My latest: how Russ Vought is reshaping America into a smaller, meaner performance state while calling it “freedom.”
Read/Listen here → paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
Read/Listen here → paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
New post: The GOP’s favorite arsonist of government is back — and this time he’s holding the algorithm. My latest: how Russ Vought is reshaping America into a smaller, meaner performance state while calling it “freedom.”
Read/Listen here → paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
Read/Listen here → paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
New today: The Heritage Hustle — the new Right is trying to turn America into an ancestral estate, where citizenship is paperwork but belonging is a bloodline.
They don’t want a republic.
They want an inheritance.
Read →paragraph.com/@civivsunh
#CivicsUnhinged #HeritageHustle #NotYourBirthright
They don’t want a republic.
They want an inheritance.
Read →paragraph.com/@civivsunh
#CivicsUnhinged #HeritageHustle #NotYourBirthright
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
New today: The Heritage Hustle — the new Right is trying to turn America into an ancestral estate, where citizenship is paperwork but belonging is a bloodline.
They don’t want a republic.
They want an inheritance.
Read →paragraph.com/@civivsunh
#CivicsUnhinged #HeritageHustle #NotYourBirthright
They don’t want a republic.
They want an inheritance.
Read →paragraph.com/@civivsunh
#CivicsUnhinged #HeritageHustle #NotYourBirthright
Ignorance isn’t the absence of knowledge.
It’s the absence of responsibility.
“World Stage, MAGA Script” just dropped.
Read it here: paragraph.com@civicsunhinged
#CivicsUnhinged #IgnoranceDoctrine #KnowNothingReboot
It’s the absence of responsibility.
“World Stage, MAGA Script” just dropped.
Read it here: paragraph.com@civicsunhinged
#CivicsUnhinged #IgnoranceDoctrine #KnowNothingReboot
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Ignorance isn’t the absence of knowledge.
It’s the absence of responsibility.
“World Stage, MAGA Script” just dropped.
Read it here: paragraph.com@civicsunhinged
#CivicsUnhinged #IgnoranceDoctrine #KnowNothingReboot
It’s the absence of responsibility.
“World Stage, MAGA Script” just dropped.
Read it here: paragraph.com@civicsunhinged
#CivicsUnhinged #IgnoranceDoctrine #KnowNothingReboot
What happens when the guardrails of democracy bow to manners? Coup by Courtesy dissects the polite authoritarianism of our times—the soft-spoken surrender that lets power change hands without a gunshot.
Read the full essay on ¶ → tinyurl.com/f97dn62r
Read the full essay on ¶ → tinyurl.com/f97dn62r
Coup by Courtesy: How the GOP Handed Over the Keys
There is an American fantasy that power is always seized with a bang: jackboots, tanks, a colonel at the radio station. But that’s not how a self-respecting 21st-century party yields a republic. Today...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
What happens when the guardrails of democracy bow to manners? Coup by Courtesy dissects the polite authoritarianism of our times—the soft-spoken surrender that lets power change hands without a gunshot.
Read the full essay on ¶ → tinyurl.com/f97dn62r
Read the full essay on ¶ → tinyurl.com/f97dn62r
🎙️In this week’s Civics Unhinged, I sit down with History itself for one last conversation — wry, weary, and uncomfortably honest about how democracies die in applause lines.
Listen now → paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged#CivicsUnhingede#MrDunneaginSpeaksk#HistorysExitInterviewe#PerformanceStatete
Listen now → paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged#CivicsUnhingede#MrDunneaginSpeaksk#HistorysExitInterviewe#PerformanceStatete
https://paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged
October 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🎙️In this week’s Civics Unhinged, I sit down with History itself for one last conversation — wry, weary, and uncomfortably honest about how democracies die in applause lines.
Listen now → paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged#CivicsUnhingede#MrDunneaginSpeaksk#HistorysExitInterviewe#PerformanceStatete
Listen now → paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged#CivicsUnhingede#MrDunneaginSpeaksk#HistorysExitInterviewe#PerformanceStatete
Trump’s economy isn’t a recovery — it’s a bonfire. The administration torches the middle class while calling it patriotism. The fire isn’t out of control; the arsonist is still holding the match.
Read here: tinyurl.com/2v6ybrk4
Read here: tinyurl.com/2v6ybrk4
Civics Unhinged
A chronicle of American absurdity, written with a straight face and a sharp pen. Civics Unhinged — satire for those who still give a damn.
paragraph.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Trump’s economy isn’t a recovery — it’s a bonfire. The administration torches the middle class while calling it patriotism. The fire isn’t out of control; the arsonist is still holding the match.
Read here: tinyurl.com/2v6ybrk4
Read here: tinyurl.com/2v6ybrk4
Kristi Noem isn’t “securing” anything — she’s signaling rank.
The jets aren’t transport. They’re tribute.
A court is already forming around Trump, and the price of entry is fealty disguised as security theater.
The Court of Homeland Security →
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The jets aren’t transport. They’re tribute.
A court is already forming around Trump, and the price of entry is fealty disguised as security theater.
The Court of Homeland Security →
paragraph.com/@civicsunhin...
Civics Unhinged
A chronicle of American absurdity, written with a straight face and a sharp pen. Civics Unhinged — satire for those who still give a damn.
paragraph.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Kristi Noem isn’t “securing” anything — she’s signaling rank.
The jets aren’t transport. They’re tribute.
A court is already forming around Trump, and the price of entry is fealty disguised as security theater.
The Court of Homeland Security →
paragraph.com/@civicsunhin...
The jets aren’t transport. They’re tribute.
A court is already forming around Trump, and the price of entry is fealty disguised as security theater.
The Court of Homeland Security →
paragraph.com/@civicsunhin...
In presumptive monarchies, power descends from above.
And aboard her two new Gulfstreams, Kristi Noem is skipping straight to the altitude of borrowed royalty.
New essay → The Court of Homeland Security
paragraph.com/@civicsunhin...
And aboard her two new Gulfstreams, Kristi Noem is skipping straight to the altitude of borrowed royalty.
New essay → The Court of Homeland Security
paragraph.com/@civicsunhin...
Civics Unhinged
A chronicle of American absurdity, written with a straight face and a sharp pen. Civics Unhinged — satire for those who still give a damn.
paragraph.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In presumptive monarchies, power descends from above.
And aboard her two new Gulfstreams, Kristi Noem is skipping straight to the altitude of borrowed royalty.
New essay → The Court of Homeland Security
paragraph.com/@civicsunhin...
And aboard her two new Gulfstreams, Kristi Noem is skipping straight to the altitude of borrowed royalty.
New essay → The Court of Homeland Security
paragraph.com/@civicsunhin...
🎪 Civics Unhinged has officially moved!
Essays, satire, and podcasts now live at paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged.
Come join us at the new Big Top—same ringmaster, sharper knives.
#CivicsUnhinged #PoliticalSatire #TrumpEra #OpenEra
Essays, satire, and podcasts now live at paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged.
Come join us at the new Big Top—same ringmaster, sharper knives.
#CivicsUnhinged #PoliticalSatire #TrumpEra #OpenEra
Civics Unhinged
A chronicle of American absurdity, written with a straight face and a sharp pen. Civics Unhinged — satire for those who still give a damn.
paragraph.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🎪 Civics Unhinged has officially moved!
Essays, satire, and podcasts now live at paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged.
Come join us at the new Big Top—same ringmaster, sharper knives.
#CivicsUnhinged #PoliticalSatire #TrumpEra #OpenEra
Essays, satire, and podcasts now live at paragraph.com/@civicsunhinged.
Come join us at the new Big Top—same ringmaster, sharper knives.
#CivicsUnhinged #PoliticalSatire #TrumpEra #OpenEra
The circus keeps moving, but I’m folding the tent—at least on one platform. A short goodbye, a nod to endurance over engagement, and a reminder of why I still write.
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I Came, I Wrote, It Didn’t Matter
After nearly three hundred essays and dozens of podcast episodes, I’ve reached a simple conclusion: I’m done writing on a schedule, and I’m done writing for platforms that confuse noise with vitality....
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October 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The circus keeps moving, but I’m folding the tent—at least on one platform. A short goodbye, a nod to endurance over engagement, and a reminder of why I still write.
🎩
paragraph.com/@civicsunhin...
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paragraph.com/@civicsunhin...
When the house is burning, the arsonists blame the firefighters — and the press wonders why the hose isn’t longer. My latest essay & podcast: The Arsonists and the Firefighters.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4ccknmcy
#CivicsUnhinged #MrDunneaginSpeaks #GOPArsonists
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🔗 tinyurl.com/4ccknmcy
#CivicsUnhinged #MrDunneaginSpeaks #GOPArsonists
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The Arsonists and the Firefighters: Who Really Owns the Crisis of American Governance?
Media Frames and Burning Houses
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October 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
When the house is burning, the arsonists blame the firefighters — and the press wonders why the hose isn’t longer. My latest essay & podcast: The Arsonists and the Firefighters.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4ccknmcy
#CivicsUnhinged #MrDunneaginSpeaks #GOPArsonists
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🔗 tinyurl.com/4ccknmcy
#CivicsUnhinged #MrDunneaginSpeaks #GOPArsonists
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As a former soldier, I can assure you: yesterday's Quantico spectacle was not routine. Trump calling 800 generals home was a rehearsal for domestic militarization. New essay up now.
👉 tinyurl.com/436v4njv
👉 tinyurl.com/436v4njv
Quantico and the Department of War: Trump’s Dress Rehearsal for Domestic Militarization
[Writer’s Note: As a former soldier, having been assigned to the Pentagon, in the office of the Secretary of the Army, I assure you that this is not satire.
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October 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
As a former soldier, I can assure you: yesterday's Quantico spectacle was not routine. Trump calling 800 generals home was a rehearsal for domestic militarization. New essay up now.
👉 tinyurl.com/436v4njv
👉 tinyurl.com/436v4njv
Trump’s “invisible hand” feels more like a pickpocket’s trick. Episode #4 of Civics Unhinged: The Invisible Hand.
🎧 Listen here → tinyurl.com/3ss365b4
🎧 Listen here → tinyurl.com/3ss365b4
The Invisible Hand Meets the Tiny Fist: Trump’s Business School of Hard Knocks
The Businessman President Who Can’t Do Business
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September 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Trump’s “invisible hand” feels more like a pickpocket’s trick. Episode #4 of Civics Unhinged: The Invisible Hand.
🎧 Listen here → tinyurl.com/3ss365b4
🎧 Listen here → tinyurl.com/3ss365b4
Ezra Klein frets about liberal despair. Fair enough. But the GOP has rebranded wreckage as nostalgia, and only one side gets framed as a crisis. That’s not analysis — it’s a séance for the dead center.
👉 via NYT: tinyurl.com/38fvtshd
#EzraKleinification
👉 via NYT: tinyurl.com/38fvtshd
#EzraKleinification
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September 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Ezra Klein frets about liberal despair. Fair enough. But the GOP has rebranded wreckage as nostalgia, and only one side gets framed as a crisis. That’s not analysis — it’s a séance for the dead center.
👉 via NYT: tinyurl.com/38fvtshd
#EzraKleinification
👉 via NYT: tinyurl.com/38fvtshd
#EzraKleinification
ICYMI: Season 2 of Civics Unhinged is live —
Ep. 1: Trump’s Law of Mirrors 🪞
Ep. 2: The Strategic Muddle 🎪
Both are free to all
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#Satire #Trump #CivicsUnhinged
Ep. 1: Trump’s Law of Mirrors 🪞
Ep. 2: The Strategic Muddle 🎪
Both are free to all
🎧 dunneagin.substack.com
#Satire #Trump #CivicsUnhinged
~ Civics Unhinged: Dispatches From Trumpistan ~ | F.P. Dunneagin | Substack
Civics Unhinged stands as a lighthouse in the fogbank of Trump-era political delusion. Click to read ~ Civics Unhinged: Dispatches From Trumpistan ~, by F.P. Dunneagin, a Substack publication. Launche...
dunneagin.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
ICYMI: Season 2 of Civics Unhinged is live —
Ep. 1: Trump’s Law of Mirrors 🪞
Ep. 2: The Strategic Muddle 🎪
Both are free to all
🎧 dunneagin.substack.com
#Satire #Trump #CivicsUnhinged
Ep. 1: Trump’s Law of Mirrors 🪞
Ep. 2: The Strategic Muddle 🎪
Both are free to all
🎧 dunneagin.substack.com
#Satire #Trump #CivicsUnhinged
Brazil gave us democracy with teeth. America gave us democracy with dentures. Bolsonaro got 27 years; Trump got four more.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
#Bolsonaro #Trump #Democracy #Satire #MrDunneaginSpeaks
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
#Bolsonaro #Trump #Democracy #Satire #MrDunneaginSpeaks
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Brazil gave us democracy with teeth. America gave us democracy with dentures. Bolsonaro got 27 years; Trump got four more.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
#Bolsonaro #Trump #Democracy #Satire #MrDunneaginSpeaks
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...
#Bolsonaro #Trump #Democracy #Satire #MrDunneaginSpeaks
Trump boasts of prosperity; the math says otherwise. Tariffs hit consumers, debt balloons, and “MAGA math” collapses under its own weight. "The Numbers Don’t Lie But Trump Does" lays it bare.
👉 Read it here: tinyurl.com/txjdx7sk
#CivicsUnhinged #DunneaginSpeaks #TrumpEconomics #PoliticalSatire
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👉 Read it here: tinyurl.com/txjdx7sk
#CivicsUnhinged #DunneaginSpeaks #TrumpEconomics #PoliticalSatire
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The Numbers Don’t Lie, But Trump Will
When Donald Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, he wasn’t pruning dead wood — he was firing the weatherman for reporting rain.
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September 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Trump boasts of prosperity; the math says otherwise. Tariffs hit consumers, debt balloons, and “MAGA math” collapses under its own weight. "The Numbers Don’t Lie But Trump Does" lays it bare.
👉 Read it here: tinyurl.com/txjdx7sk
#CivicsUnhinged #DunneaginSpeaks #TrumpEconomics #PoliticalSatire
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👉 Read it here: tinyurl.com/txjdx7sk
#CivicsUnhinged #DunneaginSpeaks #TrumpEconomics #PoliticalSatire
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David Graham’s take on Kirk leans into the same reflex I flagged in The Grey Lady’s Triptych: magnify Democratic doubt, flatten Republican extremism. It’s the “Perhaps Doctrine” in action — and it’s dragging us deeper into the rabbit hole.
Read it here: dunneagin.substack.com/p/the-grey-l...
Read it here: dunneagin.substack.com/p/the-grey-l...
The Grey Lady’s Triptych: How to Make a Coup Look Like a Calendar Item
Three panels, one distortion: why the Times magnifies Democratic hesitation and normalizes Republican demolition
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September 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
David Graham’s take on Kirk leans into the same reflex I flagged in The Grey Lady’s Triptych: magnify Democratic doubt, flatten Republican extremism. It’s the “Perhaps Doctrine” in action — and it’s dragging us deeper into the rabbit hole.
Read it here: dunneagin.substack.com/p/the-grey-l...
Read it here: dunneagin.substack.com/p/the-grey-l...