The doomsaying and castigating of our own and of responsible stewards of our institutions is getting way old. Fighting back isn't always loud. A lot of it is smart, quiet, and slow. END

to choose those who will uphold and strengthen them? Ours. Each and every citizen. The bad choices we are now saddled with are the result of badly-informed people making bad decisions. Not Democrats. Not Merrick Garland. Not Biden or Harris. 3/

We are all tested at some point, as individuals, as societies, and as institutions. When things don't go the way we want, or even know is right, it's frankly immature to immediately jump to talk about "rubble". Whose responsibility is it, ultimately, to hold institutions to account, 2/

I don't think this is a fruitful line of argument at this point. Frustration, anger, and despair are understandable. But blaming those who truly respect what are good, if imperfect institutions, is self-indulgent and short-sighted. The institutions need to be bolstered and clarified. 1/

Who didn't?

Special shout out to Pete Hegseth.

They're neither. They're too addled by their own egos to truly appreciate what "technology" and "science" really are. For them, these are just totems and fetishes for imposing their will on others.