also, “politics is bottom/top not left/right” might work as a slogan but is shit as analysis. who is the bottom? who is the top? who constitutes an “elite” and who belongs to “the people?” these are important questions that have to be answered.

The way we talk about the economy as positioned the losses of workers as male losses, wrong and threatening because of the way they endanger male status. But women are workers, too, and they deserve dignity and decent wages.

Restore everything. Bring it back. This is American history. It's our iconography. It belongs to us. He doesn't get to tear it down and we just shrug and say "well, let's sweep that aside and do something else maybe". It's not just a building, and we have a duty.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

most likely what will actually happen is some difficult-to-precisely-predict chance event that neither major U.S. political party was specifically preparing for will occur, and that will shape the future in a surprising way, because that’s generally how history works, random chance has a big role