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Yet the weakness of the moderates’ influence, this time on the Democratic side, was quickly revealed. Over the next few months, the news was monopolized by partisans on the left, who tried to redefine their party as champions of expanded and progressive government—with new entitlements for families, a “green new deal” for the world, a debt jubilee

It is about the push and pull between the past and the future. Since the sixteenth century, technological and economic change have produced enormous advances but also massive disruption. The disruption and the unequal distribution of its benefits stoke huge anxiety. Change and anxiety, in turn, leads to an identity revolution, with people searching

So I think we should turn back and pay attention to these fuckers. Use their infrastructure to release information about exactly what these people are doing and how. I think we should take our potential futures back.

Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship.

needed to be rescued “not just from populists, but also from its cheerleaders.” He wrote, “The new model of globalization stood priorities on their head, effectively putting democracy to work for the global economy, instead