in america there has never been a starker difference between the parties. both parties are not the same. there is no ratchet cranking democrats rightwards. these are lies you tell yourself to make yourself feel cooler

they don't want to take her seriously, particularly in American media, but it turns out she can force them to do so by taking shit more seriously than her competitors and speaking with substance and clarity. huh!

I feel like the illusion of continuity through the civil war, reconstruction, jim crow, and the civil rights struggle is a weird kind of American exceptionalism. we are *not* in many deep and fundamental ways, the nation of the founders bsky.app/profile/amun...

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

once again these things boil down to “is your group a bohemian cultural identity” or “is your group actually trying to do things?” and the key tell is whether your activity centers on policing of in-group behavior or whether it centers on, again, tangible goals