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Serious upcoming problem is that many young people have no real memory of politics pre-Trump, and this insanity is what many of them believe is normal, with no reference point in there lifetime of bipartisan action, people working together across party line, to improve the lives of Americans.
It’s a shame most Americans have no idea what their Republican leaders have squandered. Once they do, it’ll be too late.
January 20, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Serious upcoming problem is that many young people have no real memory of politics pre-Trump, and this insanity is what many of them believe is normal, with no reference point in there lifetime of bipartisan action, people working together across party line, to improve the lives of Americans.
The king, stripped of ritual and law, becomes the only reference point left. And without limits, he becomes a caricature of himself. A ruler. A joke. A threat. A meme. A clown with a gun.
January 20, 2026 at 5:08 PM
The king, stripped of ritual and law, becomes the only reference point left. And without limits, he becomes a caricature of himself. A ruler. A joke. A threat. A meme. A clown with a gun.
I don’t get some of y’all’s obsession with exonerating Trump from his role in the Trump presidency.
i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states
The Wrath of Stephen Miller
The man who turns President Trump’s most incendiary impulses into policy
www.theatlantic.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:59 PM
I don’t get some of y’all’s obsession with exonerating Trump from his role in the Trump presidency.
My impression of many members of Gen-Z and younger is their coming of age in the era of endlessly available information has resulted in people with a miles wide knowledge of the world that’s only an inch deep.
January 20, 2026 at 4:41 PM
My impression of many members of Gen-Z and younger is their coming of age in the era of endlessly available information has resulted in people with a miles wide knowledge of the world that’s only an inch deep.
Maybe Trump is just really invested in the Fate of Empires and is dedicated to proving John Glubb correct.
January 20, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Maybe Trump is just really invested in the Fate of Empires and is dedicated to proving John Glubb correct.
The problem with the leftist’s relationship with liberals and the Democratic Party is that when you demand all or nothing sometimes you end up with nothing.
January 18, 2026 at 11:27 PM
The problem with the leftist’s relationship with liberals and the Democratic Party is that when you demand all or nothing sometimes you end up with nothing.
It’s been a decade of Trump. The exam has been failed multiple times at this point.
In 1974, Americans passed its intestinal fortitude exam when immense public and congressional pressure forced Nixon out of office. Will we pass the same intestinal fortitude exam with Trump as president?
Do we have the will? 🤷
Do we have the will? 🤷
January 15, 2026 at 8:11 PM
It’s been a decade of Trump. The exam has been failed multiple times at this point.
“You return to your native city, to your native home, and everything is the same—the people, the streets, the walls—but the soul has gone out of it all. Nothing responds to you, nothing touches your heart. You feel like a ghost in a world that is no longer yours.”
January 15, 2026 at 7:26 PM
“You return to your native city, to your native home, and everything is the same—the people, the streets, the walls—but the soul has gone out of it all. Nothing responds to you, nothing touches your heart. You feel like a ghost in a world that is no longer yours.”
I’ve realized that a large portion of Americans do not understand America at all, if you engage in a discussion about Trump 2.0 without mentioning that it is reflective of the wishes of the evangelical Christians and the seven mountains movement you are missing the forest for the trees.
January 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I’ve realized that a large portion of Americans do not understand America at all, if you engage in a discussion about Trump 2.0 without mentioning that it is reflective of the wishes of the evangelical Christians and the seven mountains movement you are missing the forest for the trees.
Trumpism coming from right and opening the door to fascism authoritarianism and ethnocentric nationalism as acceptable ideas that need to be debated combined with group determinative manchiean ideology of the left has doomed this country.
January 5, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Trumpism coming from right and opening the door to fascism authoritarianism and ethnocentric nationalism as acceptable ideas that need to be debated combined with group determinative manchiean ideology of the left has doomed this country.
Once people’s minds are trained to react instead of think, they become permanently governable.
March 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Once people’s minds are trained to react instead of think, they become permanently governable.
We are not fighting for america or even democracy itself. We are fighting the enemies of meaning rooted in reason and human agency. This our true existential battle. So Pay Attention.
March 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
We are not fighting for america or even democracy itself. We are fighting the enemies of meaning rooted in reason and human agency. This our true existential battle. So Pay Attention.
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February 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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