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- mitchbob 8mo agoSo, a guy goes to work for the second Trump administration after seeing the shitshow of the first and then bemoans the death of democracy. Rich.
- reasonableklout 8mo agoThe author is pretty sanguine about it: > The death I am describing has been going on for most of my life. The incident I am going to write about now took place last week, and it may even be halfway satisfyingly resolved within a day. > I am not saying this incident “caused” any sort of republican death, nor am I saying it “ushered in a new era.” If this event contributed anything, it simply made the ongoing death more obvious and less deniable for me personally. I consider the events of the last week a kind of death rattle of the old republic, the outward expression of a body that has thrown in the towel.