glad that Dems are starting to wake up that by not being doormats they get to become the front runner for a couple weeks

Would be a great alternate cover for “Manufacturing Consent”

POLICE STATE

“if you elect Republicans they will actually pass and implement Republican legislation” is a sentence that should be banal but everyone smart understands is an extinction-level scenario for the party as it currently exists

How can I be confident in my politics if I can’t channel them through a guy who looks like a Tom Clancy protagonist

He understands the secret tech of making the case for “unpopular” positions in the polling: make the case at a higher level of abstraction, tied to near universal American ideals

One of the benefits modern authoritarianism enjoys is that most people don’t view politics as real or connected to anything happening in front of them