The Cost of Saying It Out Loud
When words become policy, they don’t stop working when the speaking does.
When words become policy, they don’t stop working when the speaking does.
It isn’t just what he does—it’s how cleanly he does it. No theatrics. No overt villainy. Just a steady erosion of human meaning until only assets remain. That kind of rot is harder to name, which is why it survives so well.
Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump to weaponize lawsuits—using delay, intimidation, and chaos to exhaust opponents and bend institutions.
The New Shape of the Acceptable. We’ve reached a point where ordinary people can be executed on asphalt and applauded on cable news.
The Clintons aren’t folk heroes caught in a partisan dragnet. They are apex operators of a system that learned, early on, how to convert power into insulation.
White privilege, I’ve learned, has very specific aesthetic requirements. It needs the right bone structure, the right zip code, the right college decal on the back of the car.