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The Surrender of America's Elites
- hermitcrab 1y ago"The people, it turns out, are far more courageous than their leaders."
- PaulHoule 1y agoOne of those has nothing to lose, the other has everything.
- hermitcrab 1y agoThe average person has nothing to lose?
- PaulHoule 1y agoThey do but they don't perceive it, at least not from Trump. If it was Ta-Nehisi Coates maybe they would.
- hermitcrab 1y agoLink should be: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/freedom-trump-threats-kimmel/684358/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/freedom-tr...
- throwawaysleep 1y agoThe problem is that they pushed back last time and ultimately the public said "more, more!" Surrender makes sense, as this state of affairs is not an anomaly and not the choice of one man, but the repeated choice of the American public. This was chosen by the public and there is no reason to think they will stop choosing it.
- appreciatorBus 1y agohttps://archive.ph/GB2Xg https://archive.ph/GB2Xg
- tolerance 1y agoThe Atlantic is backed by a member of the American elite.
- hermitcrab 1y agoWell, he must be less cowardly than the others.
- tolerance 1y agoShe. Time will tell.
- hermitcrab 1y ago>She. Oops. Made an assumption based on the fact that almost every other major media seems to be owned by men.