It's the usual set of consultant incentives in any industry.

If you win, great cool, maybe you'll get hired again. Nobody cares how you did it.

If you lose, it's ok if you can point to your "by the book" strategy. But if you lose while being bold & taking risks, it's catastrophic for your career

Don't forget the opportunity to win a trip to Alligator Alcatraz or an indefinite detention labor camp in El Salvador if some dipshit ICE agent who needs to hit a quota hears your accent.

And people *immediately* hate the stuff they've already done.

This isn't like the post-9/11 period when the broad American public was willing to consider previously unthinkable policies.

Almost from Day 1, the vast majority of Americans have said "I don't want this."

Bone & Sickle - deep dives into folklore & its influence on pop culture (especially horror). Not an audio drama, but it has cool, creative production.

Mayfair Watchers Society is also really good. Anthology of stories from a small town experiencing paranormal events.

That's fair. Like any big political earthquake, the outcomes will be many & varied and people will fall on different sides.

I just think some level of populism is inherent to democracy. "The mob" vs. "the elites" is something we've been wrestling with since the Federalist Papers at least

If we make it through this to some new liberal horizon, my radar will go up based on politically active billionaires, corporate media consolidation, backchannel communications among insider groups, cozy elite influence networks, etc... moreso than signs of traditional populism

A hair-trigger for something, but I'm not sure "populism" describes this moment. Populism fueled Trump's rise to power, but the current deranged moment is very much linked to American elites.

If anything I'm now MUCH more sympathetic to the idea that Musk, Bezos, etc are serious policy failures.

And everyone in that ultra-elite caste of philosopher-king lawyers just happens to belong to & be appointed by the same political party! Wild coincidence!

I'm not sure law school is a better bet given this SCOTUS's sick parody of jurisprudence and the cratering commitment to the rule of law as a meaningful force in American life.