So the most powerful person in the world is insane. Now what?
The lesson? Never put a mad man in the White House.
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She won't be. Old-man narratives don't apply to Republicans.
A paper tiger cares about appearances more than anything else.
The true source of the threat of "civilizational suicide."
They seem prepared to wait for the next American president.
Beware those speaking with the voice of God.
It took 500 days to go from "successful businessman" to gangster president.
Max Miller's impunity is mainstream.
Less authoritarian politics, more prepubescent politics, but with the same results.
Politics in plain English for normal people and the common good.
They have crossed the line from legitimate businesspeople to organized crime.
The cake is baked. The Republicans are cooked.
I have been asking the Editorial Board's chief illustrator to come up with new material and this week she came through with a banger. The axolotl is a rare species of salamander found mostly in Mexico. Climate change is its biggest threat. Kids of her generation love the
Secular arguments against Christian nationalism are too credulous.
So they tried to destroy his good name. That's the story.
Trump's vast assault on the public trust has bipartisan consequences.
And yet people will fight and find joy in it.
There are now so many people who are using artificial intelligence to generate their writing that Substack* now offers a service to scan for it. I am happy to report the results of a recent scan of my own writing. You will not be surprised to learn that it was
They're part of a broader effort to salt the earth of public trust.
But it didn't begin with his war. It began with his reelection.
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