John Stoehr
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It has shifted leftward its center of gravity.
The press corps treats democratic politics as abnormal. That’s what happens when democratic politics threatens the status quo.
Cults end when the leader dies.
Like 1982, 2022 may be the hard open of a new political order.
Prepare to endure reasonsreasonsreasons.
Let’s stop talking as if there were a singular national democracy – as if there were a singular national America – in these United States.
Affirmative action isn’t bias. It’s politics that rightwing justices don’t like and will strike down
That’s what we should focus on.
Set aside the trees to look at the forest.
The possibility of nothing changing.
Nothing else matters.