The impossibility of defending Trump's Iran deal is really exacerbating the split between irredeemably hacky MAGA and slightly-less-hacky MAGA:
Trump appeared at the Libertarian National Convention in 2024 in front of a sign that said this, it was the convention's theme
Michael Sainato
Greg Sargent
loooool some of these ideas are so bad that we were debunking them as fundamentally broken for social media… 20 years ago
"insane levels of corruption is okay for this one guy" is literally the GOP platform
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The center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness."
Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night.
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"the vulgarity that is the hallmark of Trump and his surrounding circle of oligarchs is a symptom of something not at all trivial: The collapse of social norms." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-theory...
