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    The country didn't go crazy quickly and it won't recover sanity (if it does) quickly. Rick Perlstein has spent the…
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    • A good, clear, and sobering post; thank-you. I'm not here for an argument, but I do want to say that…
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    • Yeah, for those interested in counterfactual history, consider that in 1932 voters everywhere punished the incumbent/governing parties. If Democrats had…
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    • Well, I feel you. And it's important to attend to those emotions because otherwise they'll come back and hit you…
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    • Well said. For years, Rod Dreher and others identified as social conservatives have (and perhaps still to do) railed online…
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    • Meh. It's our country. They can leave if they want to.
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    • Yeah, it's a small group (and shrinking steadily, look what's happened to House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in…
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    • Thanks for your response. I agree it's an enormously frustrating situation, and that they are by now a tiny faction…
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    • One of my pet peeves for over a decade now is the astonishing (to my mind) lack of basic political…
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    • Well said. Eric Foner's "The Fiery Trial" is* a far more useful and accurate history of Lincoln and the politics…
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    • Thanks for your comment. Aren't they "risk free future money" only as long as 1) the government pays its future…
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    • Hard truths, well said. Thank-you.
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    • Assuming this is the whole story (not a safe assumption when it comes to Trump and lawyers), Kise may be…
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    • In times like this it's hard to hold onto the fundamentals of small 'd' democratic politics: "the solution to bad…
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    • Yes, all of this. Trump's power flows primarily from the perception that he's a "winner". And, relatedly, that he can…
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    • Adding: one under-discussed aspect of the Biden administration is the degree to which it has made politics *work*---passing major legislation…
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    • I'm guessing it's (in part) your organizing background that both makes your blood boil at idealists like those political scientists...and…
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    • The political argument for prosecuting DeSantis is the same as the argument for prosecuting Trump: letting them get away with…
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    • CORRECTION: former college dropout (he went back years later and got his degree).
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    • Marty Walsh (1st generation American, cancer survivor, former high school dropout, president of Laborers #223 & Boston Building Trades Council,…
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