David W. Brown
@davidwbrown.com
Author of THE MISSION and THE OUTSIDE CATS (forthcoming).
✍️ Words for the New Yorker, &c.
🐈 Animal rescue is my thing.
🔐 Signal: dwb.11
🔗 https://davidwbrown.com
📍 New Orleans, but I have friends everywhere. 🌹
✍️ Words for the New Yorker, &c.
🐈 Animal rescue is my thing.
🔐 Signal: dwb.11
🔗 https://davidwbrown.com
📍 New Orleans, but I have friends everywhere. 🌹
Reposted by David W. Brown
all of it to avoid the recognition that this is a singularly evil and dangerous man, who climbed the greasy pole to power, even if he was uniquely right for the time period we live in. he is not going to stay there forever, he is not a god, but he got there and our lives are profoundly worse for it.
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
all of it to avoid the recognition that this is a singularly evil and dangerous man, who climbed the greasy pole to power, even if he was uniquely right for the time period we live in. he is not going to stay there forever, he is not a god, but he got there and our lives are profoundly worse for it.
Reposted by David W. Brown
the refusal to entertain at least a weak version of "Trump is how we got Trump" has been a recipe for a decade's worth of bad punditry and bad incentives for public intellectuals. "We got Trump because of some obscure event in the 1600s!" "We got Trump because of [niche voting demographic!"
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
the refusal to entertain at least a weak version of "Trump is how we got Trump" has been a recipe for a decade's worth of bad punditry and bad incentives for public intellectuals. "We got Trump because of some obscure event in the 1600s!" "We got Trump because of [niche voting demographic!"