Christ, when I joked that Jacobin would go full anti-anti QAnon I didn't mean it as a dare
The best part is the repeated projection that a movement dedicated to the idea that Donald Trump is a world-saving hero and a riot devoted to keeping him in office by fiat is ACTUALLY equally critical of both parties
"Lauren Boebert and Q were just involved in a few minor real estate deals many years ago"
Anyway, instead of the latest attempt to project working class economic populism on a faction that is neither working class nor economically populist, I recommend this more useful piece about a Harvard-educated, independently wealthy UES QAnon fanatic: nytimes.com/2021/01/17/tec…
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"his supporters" glad we're finally admitting that at least
Anyway, it could be that Liz Cheney casting a superfluous vote for impeachment prevented Donald "Assange should be executed" Trump from acting on his natural civil libertarian impulses, but no actually it's that you're been hilariously wrong about him all along
I will observe again that the "Overton Window" was back-of-a-cocktail-napkin bullshit developed by an also-ran libertarian think tank, whose thesis was that Bush's drive to privatize Social Security would be a smashing political and policy success for the right
As Chotiner suggests, a big problem is that people defending the "Overton Window" don't seem to understand what the theory is. Advocating to move policy in your direction per se isn't the "Overton Window," unless your stated endpoint is DELIBERATELY crazy and unrealistic
The core fallacy of the Overton Window is its implicit assumption that in politics the other side has to meet you halfway and can't just walk away, and the problem in most cases is that this transparently false
Tonight we have dissents from both Sotomayor and Breyer in the last instance of the Supreme Court waving the matador's cape for Trump's machinery of death without so much as a word of reasoned justification
Trump's DOJ has moved with unseemly haste in order to preempt credible legal challenges, and the Court has happily gone along
What's funny is that Hawley definitely thinks he's a serious candidate for 2024, when after all that smarm and sedition he's 15 points underwater to *Ted Cruz.*
In fairness, Hawley and the seditious mob he incited and validated aren't exactly the same. They smeared shit on the walls of the Capitol literally; he just does it metaphorically.
The dominant discourse on this website after Election Day was to essentially concede the Senate to the GOP. And yet the 11th Black Senator ever was elected in the heart of the Confederacy pretty comfortably in the end. This was great! lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/01/the-rev