“there is great care on the part of many mainstream liberals to focus on the destructive potential of #Trump as a singular entity, a freak storm somehow returned to shore, rather than a symptom of an entirely different climate [wherein millions of Americans want other people unlike them to suffer without end].

The chasm between the thing one pretends to be and the thing one really is — it’s not an exclusively Republican phenomenon.”
— Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (2025)
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