Opinion | The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’
[Trump] cobbled together a coalition of the wacky and weird. But being weird in America is kind of normal. It’s a very weird place. A lot of Americans belong to cults or odd religious sects, practice alternative medicine, participate in strange fandoms, wild fads, and peculiar enthusiasms. And with the decline of mass culture and the fragmentation ... See more
John Ganz • Trump Can Still Win
For people on the right, it’s sparked by horror at changing demographics and gender roles
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
Given the global trend, it’s really Republicans who should be hand-wringing and asking why it’s even close, and the answer is obviously that Trump is a scumbag.
Matthew Yglesias • 27 takes on the 2024 election
In some ways the left has become even more conformist than the right. The liberal New Republic has less viewpoint diversity than the conservative National Review — a reversal of historical patterns.
David Brooks • Opinion | The Future of Nonconformity (Published 2020)
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The whole right-wing trend is people who want to look upstanding while they go home and do as much weird stuff as they can get away with.”17
Neil Slaven • Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa: The Story of Frank Zappa
It seems to me that if this conservatism is so foul that many of my peers are embarrassed to be working at the same magazine, then I have no idea what version of conservatism could ever be tolerated.
Andrew Sullivan • Andrew Sullivan: See You Next Friday
These two extreme groups are similar in surprising ways. They are the whitest and richest of the seven groups, which suggests that America is being torn apart by a battle between two subsets of the elite who are not representative of the broader society. What’s more, they are the two groups that show the greatest homogeneity in their moral and poli... See more