Democracy, as Walt Whitman and Woody Guthrie understood, is a feeling. We subscribe to the idea of democracy when we feel connected to and indebted to our neighbours and fellow citizens—the broader that collection the better. The feeling is essential: Without the emotional resonance, democracy can be a boring and frustrating collection of rules and processes that only incrementally delivers the promise of a profoundly better life.
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The possibility that we might, as The New Republic’s editor Michael Tomasky put it, “sleepwalk” into a second Trump presidency is very real, which is all the more shocking given the mounting evidence that Trump Redux could well end America as we know it. The New Republic’s Matt Ford capably laid out how few guardrails remain in place, including, as Brian Beutler noted in his Off Message newsletter, “the likelihood that Trump will have carte blanche if not active participation from Congress.” The Atlantic... Читать дальше...
The organizers behind the December charity pub crawl lovingly dubbed SantaCon appear to be a little heavier on the con than the spirit of giving.
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