2 Comments

"I couldn’t exactly put my finger on why it felt like a particularly bum note this year in particular but maybe it's that there's just something real bleak about how you can have either an illiterate fucking dunce as president or an erudite cultured one with all of the a la mode tastes and it doesn't really make all that much of a difference in how the country is run for most of us."

you're getting real close to rewording the "what does it matter, they're all crooks" line of talk preferred by old white dudes everywhere. while i get your general point, i'm pretty sure groups that have seen their rights rolled back or hate crimes against them increase dramatically under the trump admin would take issue w/ the idea that "it doesn't really make all that much of a difference in how the country is run". the phrase "for most of us" seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Expand full comment