The opening story is actually implicitly a fantastically wonderful account of the victory & success & miracle of how greatly an open democratic society is flour

The opening story is actually implicitly a fantastically wonderful account of the victory & success & miracle of how greatly an open democratic society is flourishing across the world, how different things are today. The big old bad power-mad losers managed to overturn justice & democracy illegemately, yes, and that's what this article is about. But it is a somewhat narrow thing that a real genuine common person is not now in power. Living the United States, this kind of come out of nowhere story feels much more rare. Folks like AOC feel ultra noteable and rare. Although I guess the Tea Party is another semi-recent larger-scale example of a lot of semi-from-nowhere's being surged into high office, although under the wing of some not at all from-nowheres.