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We had that nearly a century ago.

Meet grok circa 1920

Guess I'd be coming down with some sort of illness around August 24th if I were a Missouri worker affected by this law and its repeal.

Gonna keep the border safe and stop bad people coming into the country illegally.

Instead (or more likely, eventually), he got "gonna round up anybody who 'fits the description' and unperson them into the Dade-Collier concentration camp"

If the last few months haven't made that clear to people, maybe the next few years will.

They're working on that.

Obviously, they're nothing centrist about this guy (besides, perhaps, his perceived position in the universe). They are, in fact, reactionaries, so definitionally right wing. But they believe they are splitting the difference between the Stalinist left (exemplified by the NYT) and the fascist right (unbeknownst to them, them).

The Dems who, since the shock of the Reagan revolution, swore off having a political project beyond "don't make it worse" but accidentally foreclosed on making things better in the process. More recently, they've been heard saying things like "nothing will fundamentally change" in the face of a political situation that is very different from 40 years earlier.

Basically all the powerful Dems since Bill Clinton. Groups like the Democratic Leadership Council. They'll poo poo ideas that regularly poll at 80% support across all parties, then spend all their political capital barely carrying a compromise position with 48% support across the finish line.

I really hope that we're reaching a tipping point where people who believe in a better world and pursue policies to bring it about can have sustained political success

I'll gladly accept a reactionary centrist spoiler party into the mix. Especially if it coincides with the Clinton wing of the DNC losing its ability to maintain its grip on power.

What does he care about a tax break? He already doesn't pay his taxes. Is he just gonna not pay less?

Bribery is just argument by other means.

Clarence Thomas's concurrence on the case they take after this one.

Shit like this and the willingness of the news media to frame it like that is the reason people describe politics as kayfabe. And why they aren't exactly wrong to believe that.

Also recognize that while you experience imposter syndrome, where you incorrectly feel like an imposter, actual imposters have put themselves into load-bearing (and lucrative) positions in society.