Opinion | The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’
Conservatives also believe themselves to be factory-default humans (with obvious demographic implications) and everyone else to be aberrations, errors, and defects in need of recall.
Substack • What You Might Be Missing About "Weird"
What unites the far right and the far-out is the hustle on the one hand, and a faith in hyper-individualism on the other.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
The Democratic coalition really is tetchy and hard to manage. I’ve watched a number of Arab-American writers who disapprove of Biden’s approach to Israel but agree that Trump’s would be worse spend the final month of the campaign driving up the salience of an issue that they know is bad for Harris and being relentlessly negative about her approach ... See more
Matthew Yglesias • 27 takes on the 2024 election
“This is an essential part of our story. Americans now bear such animosity toward one another that it’s almost as if many are holding up signs saying, “Please tell me something horrible about the other side, I’ll believe anything!” Americans are now easily exploitable, and a large network of profit-driven media sites, political entrepreneurs, and f... See more