Interesting that mamdani is beyond the pale but an out and out white supremacist is deemed to have poignant insights about the untermenschen

Reagan, 1981: “In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
Clinton, 1996: “I say again, the era of big government is over. But we cannot go back to the era of fending for yourself.”
Mamdani, 2026:

Some libertarian nerds from the ACLU are going to barely contain their own heavy breathing when they argue that nonconsenual AI porn bots are a core tenet of free speech, and you need to laugh them out of the room.

There’s been a turn in a lot of left/liberal moral thought over the past decade away from individual culpability and toward analyses of structural forces that generate bad behavior. But I’m increasingly convinced that those structural forces can’t be confronted while individuals enjoy impunity.

2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.

Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

Anyway my ancestors were illiterate drunks—peasants, petty criminals, undocumented migrants, and people leading desperate, dishonorable lives of pain and struggle. The promise of the American idea, if not the American reality, is precisely that for my rights and dignity, this should not matter.

JD Vance, Nick Fuentes, this lady—all of them are positioning themselves as rejecting the ideas core to the mythos of the founding. In that sense you could say that they’ve stopped being “Americans” in a meaningful sense—that they’ve spurned that identity and project—and have become something else.