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You don’t have to love Biden.

But pretending Trump and Biden are the same is like saying a smoke alarm and a house fire are “both annoying.”
https://www.theindex.media/p/no-biden-and-trump-are-not-the-same-88f89308e9de760d

No, Biden and Trump Are Not the Same

The Real Danger of Cynical Equivalence

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Remember when saying "Democrats and Republicans are identical" made you sound smart at parties?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

So does everyone watching Trump's purges.
https://www.theindex.media/p/no-biden-and-trump-are-not-the-same-88f89308e9de760d

No, Biden and Trump Are Not the Same

The Real Danger of Cynical Equivalence

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No one rules the world cleanly.

And anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying.

Or campaigning.
https://www.theindex.media/p/the-incompatibility-of-power-and-moral-heroism-4e5db5f2a14ebb82

The Incompatibility of Power and Moral Heroism

The Fantasy of the Good Emperor

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Most institutional failures aren't conspiracies; they're emergent properties of incentive structures where no individual is acting irrationally, yet the collective outcome is insane.
If you can sell a Substack about how broken the system is, that’s the system working.
https://www.theindex.media/p/nobody-has-more-contempt-for-liberal-democracy-than-people-who-ve-never-lived-without-it-e6d712655e6
Nobody Has More Contempt for Liberal Democracy Than People Who've Never Lived Without It

The Luxury of Disdain

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To be born in a liberal democracy is to inherit a paradox: the freedom to denounce the very system that grants you the freedom to denounce it.
https://www.theindex.media/p/nobody-has-more-contempt-for-liberal-democracy-than-people-who-ve-never-lived-without-it-e6d712655e6
Nobody Has More Contempt for Liberal Democracy Than People Who've Never Lived Without It

The Luxury of Disdain

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Nobody has more contempt for liberal democracy than people who've never lived without it.

The West cycles through figures like Obama, Macron, Trudeau etc as if auditioning them for the role of secular messiah.

We elevate them, then punish them for being what we always should have known they would be:

Flawed.
https://www.theindex.media/p/the-incompatibility-of-power-and-moral-heroism-4e5db5f2a14ebb82?modal=content_gate

The Incompatibility of Power and Moral Heroism

The Fantasy of the Good Emperor

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Conservatism once meant preserving a hearth.

Now it means preserving a hedge fund.

John McCain was the last Republican who understood politics as tragedy, not grievance.