To put it another way, I think Musk’s purchase of Twitter has helped reify the vague pundit instinct that Trump in some way channels the will of an inchoate true Volk, because now the voice of the Volk speaks through X, the everything app
Quinta Jurecic
Recently I was at an event where a reasonably respectable person talked about how Trump’s threats to Greenland speak to the human desire to go on a grand mission, etc, and that’s why we need to respect the mass appeal of this idea. Invading Greenland polls at like 6% approval. But they like it on X
you've just got to be good to trans women, Austin, and you can live forever, baby
come on be groovy, be groovy like we know you can be
England fan asked on local news about "It's coming home" and their chances of winning:
"We actually don't think it's ever coming home. It's an ironic thing. It's coming home until we lose."
Like... you fool! Let Third Way do the dirty work of attacking your opponent for his associations. You're supposed to pretend to be above it all, focused on your own campaign, making your case to voters, and not getting involved in that sort of stuff. Politics 101.
