It’s not just making a good latte, but making it fast. I spent a year as a barista (a long time ago!), and when that line starts growing, you have to get it in gear.

The GOP, meanwhile, have managed to keep their factions in line by being an insurgent party. With complete and potentially permanent control of government, the factions are at war. Nazism cool or nah? Anti-(((globalism))) or Israel? America-first or free markets? There’s no middle way here, either.

In response to the GOP’s reactionary leadership dating to the 1990s, Dems became the institutional party. The instinct to capitulate and preserve the status quo led Ds to become a caricature of appeasement—exemplified by last night’s vote. The change versus preserve debate has no middle way.

The reasons for the parties’ fissures come from mirror-image circumstances. The success of the GOP has untethered it, exposing long-simmering ideological disputes. For Dems, constant failure has exposed a *governing* schism—is it the party of preservation, or will it offer real change?

America has a white men problem.

I try to imagine 2015 me contending with these two sentences.

Talk about cope. You’ve gone into its inversion (dope?), where Trump is an all-powerful being uninfluenced by the winds of politics. Certainty is comforting, analysis is hard.

“Slightly right of the average Norwegian Labor Party member” is not very scary, though!

2. Instead, these wins will become the five-alarm fire that convinces Republicans they can't actually stage free and fair elections and win. If they do win these races, and if CA does vote to redistrict, it’s going to supercharge the GOP effort to pervert the midterms.