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So, promised you all a more uplifting story of something that happened today in Boston. I was in an old building with a business on each floor, with a very
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I’m exhausted by the insanity of the “let’s celebrate Rush Limbaugh‘s death“ tweets. So I’ll leave you with one last thought. One reason you don’t celebrate the death of a
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Okay, so everyone is liking that I like Mary Chapin Carpenter, but honesty means that I have to tell the story of how I first saw her and why I
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Just amplify the point @McFaul was making earlier, there is no doubt that Trump is an authoritarian and the people around him are wannabe authoritarians, but the history of mass
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One of the things that's also amazing, and this response gets nearer to it, is that "economic grievance" arguments fail to make any class or *race* distinctions. /1https://twitter.com/CarolWalshReal1/status/1355730540389781510
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In the case of an authoritarian state like Russia, the way protest brings change is: the elites around Putin worry that public anger will sway the institutions of the state
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Just to amplify David's excellent analogy, let me explain a few other things about Russia. - There will be no Joe Biden elected six months after the protests.- The entire
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Everyone's reaching out and thanking each other for getting through this. I am not kidding that I will not fully relax until the nuclear codes are away from him. But
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Reading this piece from last summer by @normative, I realize that there is a parallel here between Qanon's "Storm" and the Cold War cults that sprang up at various times,
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These are people - again, especially the men - trapped in the eternal drama of adolescence. They are creatures of a leisure society, bored by the ordinariness of life, angry
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The raging narcissism, particularly of the cosplaying men who now deny that they wanted no part of any of the seditious stuff, is striking. Men who have a huge reserve
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Watching footage of the Loser Sturm overrunning the Capitol during the Beer Belly Putsch, I am struck again by how much of what plagues us is an addiction to the
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